Fatima Bhutto shares her blood-stained family history and brings out the spirit of Pakistan and its people
Fatima Bhutto shares her blood-stained family history and brings out the spirit of Pakistan and its people
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It is not every day that a daughter tries to trace the truth of her father's murder. But Fatima Bhutto, niece of slain ex-Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is no ordinary woman.
Bhutto's second book tilted Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir, a first-person account offers much more.
Seen through the eyes of the author, an unwilling participant in the making of one of the most infamous histories of the world, the book tells the tale of Pakistan as never heard before.
"The book is a participant's view of history and that is rare. It goes beyond history and operates at different levels.
At some point it becomes the story of a father and daughter," says Dr Narendra Pani, Professor and Dean of National Institute of Advanced Studies, who will be in discussion with Bhutto during the launch of her book.
The book is the story of the Bhuttos and their journey from being feudal lords to the lawmakers in Pakistan.
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It deals with Pakistan's past and present. Fatima brings out the story of a family in a nation driven by murder, corruption, betrayal and division.
She successfully balances the political from the personal, thereby giving the book a heart.
You can almost see the 14-year-old Fatima crouching with her baby brother in a dressing room as Mir Murtaza Bhutto, her father gets gunned down on the streets of Karachi.
The free flowing narrative in a lucid style reveals how the war on terror from internal and external sources destroyed lives in Pakistan.
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It portrays the pain, apprehension and the bewilderment of a family, which lost their loved ones due to political mayhem and conspiracy.u00a0
From the execution of her grandfather Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979, to the assassination of her aunt Benazir Bhutto in 2007, the book is the testimony of a powerful family and their helplessness.
However, nowhere does Fatima turn this into a sob story. In fact, she speaks out the truth of a country, which has been under global speculation for decades.
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From the lack of electricity to the indefinite closure of schools, the book is all about the smell and smoke of Karachi.
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