Haveli

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Summary: Be More Specific, Please
Review: I first read Shubanu in the 8th grade as required reading, I loved the book. I recently read Haveli just to see if it was as good as the first and you know what? It was even better! Shubanu's struggles as a wife and young mother in a land where women are thought of as property. Her hopes and dreams are for her daughter, Mumtaz, to grow up with an education so that she can be better off. Tragedy stikes when Rahim, her husband, affanges for her friend, Zabo, to marry his idiot son. This marriage is doomed for Zabo and Shubanu must help her friend. At the same time she is dealing with Rahim's four other jealous wives who keep trying to harm Shubanu and her daughter. All of this is on top of her and she is only eighteen years old. This truely sheds light on the struggles of women in countries that think their only purpose is pleasure to men, childbirth, and property. I recommend this book highly for everyone to read.

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Summary: Very good book!
Review: I just wanted to let anyone know that if you are thinking of reading Haveli you should! It is a great sequel to Shabanu Daughter of the wind.

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Summary: i loved the book but didn't really like the ending.
Review: i loved how it kept me reading even when i hate doing it and how shabanu took control and didn't change how she thought when she married rahim,but i got really mad about the ending....i think you should write another book.

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Summary: Greatest sequal to any book I've ever read!
Review: I loved it! I first read ' Shabanu' and I fell in love. I was then told there was a sequal. Of course as soon as I heard, I rushed to the library to check it out. I also fell in love with Haveli. The only thing that disappointed me was the gap in the timeline of the books. I really wanted to read about her wedding preperations, her wedding, the birth of Mumtaz and such. Also I wish she hadn't treated Omar as she had, but otherwise, definatly a must-read book. It'd be great if Suzanne would write a third book, but I can see why she wouldn't. Great book, I love it!

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Summary: Enthralling
Review: I LOVED this book! Ms. Staples vivid descriptions of the seemingly magical Pakistani life-despite it's opressiveness to women-will linger in my daydreams for a long time to come. I'm holding my breath for a sequel! (come on, I must know!)

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Summary: Great!
Review: I loved this book. I didn't read the first book about Shabanu, but you don't need to read it to understand HAVELI. It has been proven that women have no control over their childerens' sex, but the culture in this book doesn't believe that. It makes for a really interesting story and romance. But, as someone else said, the end was almost incomplete. Ms. Staples should write another book about her.

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Summary: Awesome!!!!
Review: I really liked it. Its a little better than the sequel, but who cares, its still a great book! the part I hated is when you killed one of the characters- she could have lasted until the sequel, which you must write otherwise I will go crazy. If you do write a sequel, make sure that the villians in Haveli- Nazir, Amina and Leyla, Come to justice and get what they deserve for their wrong doing because If I was Shabanu in the story, I would have done something horrible to Amina and Leyla. I can't wait for the moment when Shabanu, Mumtaz, and Omar reunite and Shabanu and Omar get married and finally Shabanu forfills her dream of Mumtaz becoming an engineer.

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Summary: Wow!
Review: I though Shabanu was my favourite book, until I read Havelli! This sequel to the award-winning Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind is fantastic. In the book, a grown up Shabanu is now married to the politician Rahim and has a daughter, Mumtaz. In the book, they mostly live in the Havelli, a family home in the capital of Pakistan. This place is new to Shabanu, and being a simple desert gypsy, she finds a whole new world in the city. Shabanu is the youngest and favoured of Rahim's four wives, and the other three aren't to happy about it. They continuously threaten Shabanu, and even her innocent daughter, and Rahim doesn't do a thing! On top of that, Shabanu falls in love with her brother in law's son, Omar! Omar is far older than his "auntie" but Shabanu sees in him all the desirable and intellectual qualities old Rahim sometimes lacks. Rahim remains unknowing to all these things, and even his own brother's malemovent plans, until only tragedy and death follow. How can Shabanu protect her daughter in this violent and dangerous land, and follow her heart's desires? This book's a sad one, but its also one of the best I've ever read.

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Summary: Intriguing, I couldn't put it down! Ruby, NJ
Review: I thought the book was a very detailed saga of the life and times of Shabanu, who, incidentally, is not a character of ancient times, but of today, and definitely a reflection of young women in Pakistan today. It is almost a "true" story except for the macabre ending. It beckons yet another sequel and I hope to find it available as and when Ms. Staples writes it. Ruby

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Summary: unbelievable
Review: i was so excited to read this- not even knowing there wuz a sequal! i'm hoping for a follow up but the're probly wont be! if uve read the first book u HAVE to read this- and it leaves u hanging in a way! this has all kinds of plots and romances that will leave u wanting to read more and more! i definetely recommend this to others in high school- this is a MUST read!