{ "item_title" : "Basti", "item_author" : [" Intizar Husain "], "item_description" : "Bastiuna crnica novelada y bellamente crita de la trgica historia moderna de Pakistn, y considerada su obra matra fundacional. Basti en urdu significa asentamiento, lugar comn, y la extraordinaria novela de Intizar Husain comienza as , con una visin mtica de la armona entre ancianos y jven, hombr y mujer, musulman e hind. Pero entonc Zakir (el que recuerda), el protagonista, dpierta al mundo moderno en medio de una maniftacin. Las masas se agolpan. Las consignas se lanzan. Las ciudad arden.l piensa en el amor que dejatrs...Qulo que hace que los hombr se junten y qulo que l separa, a vec tan violentamente? Basti una historia de amor y una reflexin sobre tas eternas preguntas en el contexto de un conflicto cuyos ecos se siguen sintiendo hoy en da. Basti is a beautifully written fictional chronicle of Pakistan's tragic modern history and is regarded as Intizar Husain's foundational masterpiece. In Urdu, basti means settlement or common place, and the novel begins with a mythical vision of harmony among old and young, men and women, Muslims and Hindus. Then Zakir ( the one who remembers ), the protagonist, awakens to the modern world in the midst of a demonstration. The crowds surge. Slogans are shouted. Citi burn. He thinks of the love he left behind... What brings people together, and what tears them apart-- sometim so violently? Basti is both a love story and a meditation on the eternal qutions, set against a conflict whose echo are still felt today.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/8/49/449/098/8494490982_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "24.00", "online_price" : "24.00", "our_price" : "24.00", "club_price" : "24.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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