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Summary: An excellent glimpse into Pakistani culture
Review: This part of the world has exploded into the news in recent times. If you are a young person (or the parent or teacher of one) who is trying to understand the culture of Pakistan, this is a good place to start. The Pakistani interplay of social status, gender roles, and family are all worked into a very engaging novel. It will be particularly illuminating for women of all ages who enjoy remarkable freedom in western culture, to look at the life of a young girl who wrestles with her desire for freedom in the confines of society very different from our own. The sequel "Haveli" continues the story and is equally compelling.
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Summary: Suzanne Fisher Staples can't write a decent phrase.
Review: From the start, this book was horrendously unrealistic. The author writes in the present tense, mixing Pakistani vocabulary with English, creating a confusing arrangement without tense or setting. "It was all the water we could get from the toba, the basin that is our main water supply." The book is full of such sentences. It is completely unclear as to who the author is speaking to, and who the main character Shabanu is speaking to. Altogether very confusing.This book has literally no plot and terrible writing. The author cannot decide who her audience is. The reading level is for fourth grade girls, yet the content is for adults. I read this book to learn more about Pakistani culture. The extent to which I learned was random information about camels, about as useful as knowing that the plastic tip of a shoelace is called an aglet. Suzanne Fisher Staples needs to think before she writes.
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Summary: A book for a free night
Review: This book will blow you to tears. I read this book because I had to read the seconed one and I didn't know what was happening.I think that Shabenu took me to another world. All the different words and such were just fantastic. I would recoment Shabenu to anyone who reads science fiction or fantisy. Thats all I used to read. Now I will be able to read anything.Excilent writing style too!
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Summary: Reveiw of Shabanu Daughter of the Wind
Review: This book was very interesting and gave a wide background on the lives of people and their rituals in Pakistan and other places of the same sort. I would say that it is probably an average reading level of about 6th or 7th grade and up. For more advanced readers it would be for about 3rd grade and up. It is about a girl of 11 who lives in the Cholistan desert in Pakistan. Her father has chosen two suitable husbands for Shabanu and her sister Phulan. Phulan's husband-to-be gets killed. Phulan must marry the man that Shabanu was to marry and Shabanu must marry another man that she does not wish to marry. How will she escape from this marriage?
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Summary: GREAT!!!
Review: I read this book because it was on my reading list for the 9th gread. I thought it would be a boring book. I was wrong. After I started reading this book I did not feel like I had to read it.
This book is about a young desert girl living a nomatic life in the desert. It has lots of adventures. I could easily put myself in Shabanu's position. READ IT!!!
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Summary: Spirtually inspiring
Review: ...I read this book a little over a year ago and i fell in love with it. I have read it to pieces and have bought 3 new compies in the past year. This book happens to be very adventurous and awe inspiring. Its about a musilm girl, Shabanu, who is 11 at the beginning of her story. She and her sister Phulan , 13, live in the Cholistian Desert along th Border of Pacistan with the mother, father, , grandfather, aunt, and younger cousins as camel "farmers". They live in anyplace in the desert that happend to have water untill the monsoons come. Shabanu is interested in everything except "ladies" work. She and her sister are betrothed to thier cousins Murad and Hamir. But when her Mother tries to teach Shabanu womens work, Shabanu's sister catches on but Shabanu has more fun playing with the camels and running around in the beautiful desert sand. When a something tragic happens between her family and her landowner, her family is put with a desicion that will change evrything in everyones life. Shabanu, daughter of the wind, is one of the best books i've ever read .... I feel at least evryone who loves an uplifting, tear jerker will love this book and its sequal, Havali. Suzanne Fisher Stapeles happens to be a wonderful author. i love her other book Shiva's fire. All her stories and books are very uplifing and make you feel godd when you read them. YOU REALLY SHOULD READ THIS!!! thank you.
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Summary: PATIENCE REQUIRED
Review: If you are not a very patient person, then don't even bother with this book. The first 3/4 of it is very SLOW. It is very descriptive, going into too much detail and leaving you wondering if there is a plot or if you are just going to be educated on camels. However, if you are patient and can make it through all of that, then the last part of the book becomes quite intense and exciting. I did enjoy the last part of the book, and it even left part of me wanting to read the sequel. But if the sequel is like Shabanu, then I don't know if I'll have the patience to make it through to the end again! This book did open my eyes quite a bit to the Muslim culture, something which I previously knew very little about. However, I don't know if it is an really an accurate portrayal of Muslim life or not. I found it interesting to read about a culture that is so different from my own, but there was just a little TOO much detail, often about things I really did NOT want to learn about (such as how camels mate). So, if you have lots of patience and are willing to trudge through a lot of details about camels and desert life to get to the good stuff at the end, then I say go for it and give this book a try. But if you are looking for something that is gripping right from the start and that will keep you turning the pages, then this is NOT the book for you.
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Summary: love it!!
Review: it is so good!!!! i really liked it a lot...i felt sorry for her in so many parts but then in others i wanted to be her...it was really good and i think everyone should read it!!!!!!
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Summary: Shabanu
Review: This book is basically about a pakistani girl in the united states. She lived in pakistan and scaped. This story really is about my self because it basically talks about how a person from other country suffer when they come to the Unted States or any other countries. When i first came to the United States i was suffering from a lot of things. One thing is that people didnt get along with me. This Pakistani girl was suffering like me too. And i really think that this book is really interesting for people who come to the United States.
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Summary: Shabanu review by Luke Sathiensamrit
Review: This book is about a Muslim girl named Shabanu. She lived in the Cholistan desert of Pakistan. Her life had many problems like family and love. The story really caught me. Many small climaxes of the story appeared all throughout the book. This makes me want to know what would happen next. Though the main point of it is that Shabanu had to marry a man that she didn't love. She had to decide what to do next: stay or run. What will be the choice that she makes? Find out in the book of the year, "Shabanu Daughter of the Wind."
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