Karachi Vice : life and death in a divided city /
Karachi. Pakistan's largest city is a sprawling metropolis of twenty million people. It is a place of political turbulence in which those who have power wield it with brutal and partisan force. Samira Shackle explores the city of her mother's birth in the company of a handful of Karachiite...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Brooklyn :
Melville House,
2021.
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| Summary: | Karachi. Pakistan's largest city is a sprawling metropolis of twenty million people. It is a place of political turbulence in which those who have power wield it with brutal and partisan force. Samira Shackle explores the city of her mother's birth in the company of a handful of Karachiites. Shackle paints a vivid portrait of one of the most complex and compelling cities in the world, a city where the borders blur between politicians and gangsters and between lawful and unlawful, as dangerous new forces of violent extremism are pitted against old networks of power. |
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| Item Description: | "First published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2021." |
| Physical Description: | xxiv, 246 pages : maps ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781612199429 1612199429 |