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Jemima Khan, ex-wife of Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan will write a book on her experiences in the country till she left it in 2002.
The book, provisionally called Surprising Encoun-ters, is being promoted by literary agents AP Watt at the Frankfurt Book Fair and will be published in October 2011.
Ive narrowed it down to Middle Eastern Politics, International Relations or Comparative Religion, Jemima told Dawn newspaper. According to AP Watt of London, founded in 1875, and which describes itself as the longest-established literary agency in the world, the book on Pakistan will be an accessible and anecdotal, witty and revealing portrait of a country at the febrile epicentre of world affairs.
In this book, she revisits the country she got to know in the 1990s, undertaking a journey which begins in Lahore, moves north to Peshawar and Islamabad before heading down to Karachi, the agency said.
Along the way, she encounters a dazzling array of people the ordinary, the infamous and the extraordinary who best illustrate the paradoxes of this country of 165 million people, which encompasses more than a dozen languages, several hundred tribes and is very different from the bearded zealots or military men of the stereotype, it added.
Jemima was only 21 when she married Imran in 1995, who was twice her age and converted to Islam. She learnt Urdu and moved to Khans extended family house in Lahore.
{Source: Asian Age}
The book, provisionally called Surprising Encoun-ters, is being promoted by literary agents AP Watt at the Frankfurt Book Fair and will be published in October 2011.
Ive narrowed it down to Middle Eastern Politics, International Relations or Comparative Religion, Jemima told Dawn newspaper. According to AP Watt of London, founded in 1875, and which describes itself as the longest-established literary agency in the world, the book on Pakistan will be an accessible and anecdotal, witty and revealing portrait of a country at the febrile epicentre of world affairs.
In this book, she revisits the country she got to know in the 1990s, undertaking a journey which begins in Lahore, moves north to Peshawar and Islamabad before heading down to Karachi, the agency said.
Along the way, she encounters a dazzling array of people the ordinary, the infamous and the extraordinary who best illustrate the paradoxes of this country of 165 million people, which encompasses more than a dozen languages, several hundred tribes and is very different from the bearded zealots or military men of the stereotype, it added.
Jemima was only 21 when she married Imran in 1995, who was twice her age and converted to Islam. She learnt Urdu and moved to Khans extended family house in Lahore.
{Source: Asian Age}
