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Stranger to History

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As a child, all Aatish Taseer ever had of his father was his photograph in a browning silver frame. Raised by his Sikh mother in Delhi, his father, a Pakistani Muslim, remained a distant figure. It was a fractured upbringing which left Aatish with many questions about his own identity. Stranger to History is the story of the journey Aatish made to try to understand what it means to be Muslim in the twenty-first century. Starting from Istanbul, Islam's once greatest city, he travels to Mecca, its most holy, and then home through Iran and Pakistan. Ending in Lahore, at his estranged father's home, on the night Benazir Bhutto was killed, it is also the story of Aatish's own divided family over the past fifty years.

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ISBN: 9781847671318
Publication date: 1st July 2010
Author: Aatish Taseer
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 336 pages
Genres: Travel writing
Social groups: religious groups and communities
Family history, tracing ancestors
Memoirs