{"product_id":"book-ex06","title":"Shehnaz","description":"Shehnaz was a beautiful, erudite woman from the royal family of Bhopal, who was   almost cast to play Anarkali in K. Asif's Mughal-e-Azam. Her daughter Sophia   Naz tells her story as she heard it from her-about her childhood as part of   the royal household in Bhopal, where she led a revolt among the women for   their right to be educated before being married, her glamorous life in Mumbai   that hid the reality of an abusive first marriage that left her emotionally   and physically traumatized, her divorce during which she lost custody of both   her children to her husband, her second marriage to an army doctor in   Pakistan, and her life thereafter.\u003cbr\u003e As a child, the author accompanied her mother every year to Mumbai, where   she would try to find some trace of her children in vain. Though remarried   and with a new family, Shehnaz pined for her older children all her life, the   pain lending a near-permanent patina of grief to her life. She finally met   her children after twenty-one years, in the US. Her son refused to recognize   her, saying he had no memory of her. Her daughter did remember her, though   their reunion was brief, with the father exerting his will and threatening to   disown the children if they had anything to do with their mother. When   Shehnaz passed away, it was with her older daughter's name on her lips.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49326528201008,"sku":"BDex06","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/538122-ex06-Square.jpg?v=1733635180","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ex06","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}