Ayesha at last book7/4/2023 But if you expect something more than entertainment, something that expands your ideas and makes you look at life and people in a new way as Jane Austen’s novels do, then this book has nothing to offer.Īyesha is an Indian immigrant living in Toronto. If you read novels merely for entertainment then this book fits the bill. But if you can get over these things and treat the novel as just another below-average contemporary novel with elements from Pride and Prejudice thrown in, you will be able to enjoy an entertaining and thrilling tale. The hero is an absolute bore and the heroine is best described as an impulsive non-Muslim teenager who happens to wear the hijab, neither of them having any of the depth and sophistication one expects from Jane Austen’s heroes. The story is a melodramatic and unrealistic soap opera with unbelievable characters and events. This comparison is very unfair to Austen’s great masterpiece and sets readers up for disappointment. The publisher stresses that this is a Muslim version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Ayesha, At Last is a 2018 novel by Uzma Jalaluddin, a Canadian Muslim.
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