Broken Threads

Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri reviewed Broken Threads by Mishal Husain for the Guardian.

“Tahirah never finished her memoir, but 30 years later, her granddaughter, BBC journalist Mishal Husain, has written something much broader in scope – a sweeping history of partition through the lens of her grandparents, all four of whom relocated to the new state of Pakistan: wise Tahirah; selfless, fiery Mary Quinn, the daughter of an Irishman and his much younger Hindu wife; Shahid, who trained at Sandhurst in the 30s and went on to set up Pakistan’s intelligence service; and Mumtaz Husain, a doctor and eyewitness to the brutalities of 1947.”

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