In September 1996, fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto shielded her baby brother while shots rang out outside the family home in Karachi. This was the evening that her father, Murtaza, was assassinated. It was the latest in a long line of tragedies for one of the world's best-known political dynasties. Songs of Blood and Sword tells the story of a family of feudal landlords who became power brokers in the newly created state of Pakistan. It is an epic tale of intrigue and the international political elite, the making of modern Pakistan, and, ultimately, tragedy. It is also a book about a daughter's love for her father and her search to uncover the truth of his life and death.

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Book Details

Title	Songs of Blood and Sword
Imprint	Nation Books
Product Form	Paperback
Publisher	Avalon Publishing Group
Source ISBN	9781568586762
Genre	Biography & Autobiography
ISBN13	9781568586762
Book Category	History and Archaeology Books
BISAC Subject Heading	BIO026000
Book Subcategory	Memoirs
ISBN10	9781568586762
Language	English

Dimensions

Width	29 mm
Height	232 mm
Length	155 mm
Weight	722 gr

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Songs of Blood and Sword.. 5 stars not enough to rate it!

The book is an amazing piece of non-fiction. Each event in the political history of Pakistan and personal history of the Bhutto family has been researched well and put even better in words. The author describes the harsh political scenario of Pakistan since its independence and how the Bhutto family has suffered and been ripped apart by the power-struggle from within the family.

The book is a reflection of the personal loss the author and her family has suffered and has also described the d...

Nandita Hemmady

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Apr, 2014

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Absolutely Brilliant

The other reviewers have already written what needs to be said. I give my +1 to then. Fatimah Bhutto is a star.

Surya Samaddar

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Jun, 2014

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i was unsure while reading this book... i needed to check again and again if this was fiction only to find out it was not rather come to grim realization that this was non fiction. To know that the events described are true is yet shocking.. was the partition worth it?? That is the question that forms at the back of the minds of readers. READ IT Wont be disappointed.

Rohit Sunny

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Jan, 2014

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Songs of Blood and Sword echos......

Fatima Bhutto’s Songs of Blood and Sword is one of the grace and depth of love between a daughter and father and also the darkest edge of greed of power that demolishes the love between brothers and sister...and all relations. Fati made huge efforts to express the reality of fake strength of relations and immense greed of power in democracy and to be above democracy.

Kuldeep Dulta

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Aug, 2013

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Blood on sword

Fatima bhutto has put her family' side of story which is high on literary metaphors and imagery but short on generally accepted "facts".The feuds of first family of pakistan have a blood tinge which rouse the curiousity of reader but book lets them down.

sandeep badoni

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Jun, 2012

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