• Hardcover
• 311
• How It Happened
• Shazaf Fatima Haider
• English
• 04 March 2018
• 9780670086467

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How It Happened Summary  107 Re harder to pleaseHaroon the apple of her eye has to suffer half a dozen candidates until he finds the perfect Shia Syed girl of his dreams But it is Zeba his sister who has the tougher time as she is accosted by a bevy of suitors including a potbellied cou Simply HilariousHow It Happened The interrogation of title is itself dramatic and suspiciousNow let s number those suspicions Roughly my own1 How Haroon Got Married2 How Zeba Will Be Wed3 How Will Dadi Ever Come Round4 What Will Happen In Case Of SalehaIt is a story about arranged marriages with a blend of humour and wit There was perfect relation in between me and the story Every Pakistani reader will find certain amount of affliction with it for the plot is homely Stunning Imagery I fell in love with characters They are all richly supplied with ample elaboration It looked like Shazaf knew well when the reader is bored and is waiting for some action to happen rather than mere elaborations A perfect combination And one declaration You cannot put this book down It s addicting Too muchThere is almost nothing to criticise about except some exaggerations in Dadi s case Dadi who don t want her Laal grandson to go to Amreeka haha and who wants him to get married in an arranged way at last became convinced for a girl Haroon liked But things became harder and harder in Zeba s case Dadi was rigid and firm in her decision followed by her Bandian traditions and was not ready for a love match in case of Zeba her granddaughterThe old soul s dialogue were very emotional somewhere a little exaggerated Her character was like warmth and life to the novel So close to reality I mean really it s so difficult to convince grandparents esp about the idea of abandoning some sort of tradition But on the other hand these traditions make us real humans and solid values are really important in maintaining a sound society obliged to religion I think Dadi deserves an Award for her acting as if it were a film or a tv series Haha Girl 123 That was amusing PPhuppos played a great part but I didn t like Fati Phupps Although she was the one who saved everything at last but she is like an adult bigriwi Hell Urdu influence This book is responsible Saleha s storytelling marvelled This is like 45 starsOne won t need a highlighter to carry along because there are no heavy deep far from reality linesThere is just a story going on But who is that girl on cover Zeba or Dadi herself at her wedding A uestion still unanswered Anyway I am glad I read a book change from others a story of an ordinary household broken somewhere in between due to fallen off traditions but then recovered in most unusual circumstances

How It Happened Summary  107 Dadi the imperious matriarch of the Bandian family in Karachi swears by the virtues of arranged marriage All her ancestors – including a dentally and optically challenged aunt – have been perfectly well served by such arrangements But her grandchildren a This book was so disappointing First of all the plot The plot was so utterly boring and predictable By the first chapter I knew Zeba would be dating a Sunni boy I knew Dadi would make a fuss over that etc etc resulting in a happy ending for all And because the plot was so predictable the plot dragged on and on until by the time i was on the last few chapters I wanted to tear up my beautiful hardcover copy just out of sheer frustrationAnd then there were the characters Saleha Saleha Saleha is supposed to be fifteen Really I am a fifteen year old and I think I know how developed a fifteen year old mind is Judging from her mental capacity I would guess Saleha to be around 8 Maximum 9 Because to tell you the truth kids stop playing with salt and pepper shakers when they hit 13 And Saleha was doing just that when she accompanied her family and Gullan or whatever that guy s name was for coffee Most fifteen year olds are not at all oblivious to the world around them and if they are school going then they are fully aware of what happens at the wedding night Another thing that got to me was that Saleha throughout her narrative hardly ever spoke of her own self most fifteeen year olds are highly self absorbed they are constantly thinking about school about people they know about themselves However these things are the least of Saleha s concerns Saleha never once mentions her own school life Readers remain throughout the book unaware of Saleha s own worries or problems This was distinctly oddThen there is Dadi Dadi is supposed to be the typical Dadi of every pakistani household Stubborn at times just plain mean and unable to accept new ideas However Haider aiming for a foreign audience exaggerates the typical dadi so much so that she transforms her into someone who is overly stubborn overly mean and overly narrow minded Sure most Pakistani grandparents can at times be annoyingly old fashioned but they also tend to be very wise They also tend to be experienced in matters concerning the world Sure sometimes they act almost childish but they can be very intelligent too Haider however presents Dadi as almost bordering on someone completely mad Dadi is one character who most readers will I believe find a tad unbelievableZeba is also an exaggerated form of The Liberal Free Thinking Pakistani Woman as is Fatty Phupps Zeba is freuently seen reading novels such as Lolita and Wuthering Heights Haider obviously emloys this literary techniue to make sure readers fully understand how liberal Zeba really is Of course we wouldn t have understood that otherwise Though it does strike me strange that a girl with a masters in English is only just reading them OddAll in all the book was unbelievably bad I beg for the forgiveness of any of those people who thought this book was a delectable laugh out loud family tale because seriously it wasn t

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How It Happened Summary  107 Sin and a banker who reeks of sesame oilTold by the witty hawk eyed Saleha the precocious youngest sibling this is a romantic amusing and utterly delightful story about how marriages are made and unmade not in heaven but in the drawing room and over the phon Every Pakistani girl of the marriageable age can relate to this book It is so true to our lives and that s what made this book an interesting read because it felt like I was reading about my own life or my cousin s Starting from the showing off your daughters at others wedding to the typical drawing room meetings and ending with the buying of dowry everything was so real How relatives compete with each other to get their children married of first as if there is a race going on and how some girls are never asked their opinions because oh its bad manners to think about your own personal wishes This book talks about every experience a girl goes through when she reaches a certain age and everyone will be able to relate to this that oh this happened with me or someone I know Loved reading this book although I think the character of Dadi was too much at some points but other than that the characters are very real