TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zeenath Khan
TI  - SIRENS OF SEPTEMBER
SN  - 9780143471608
U1  - F 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Haryana
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Novel
KW  - Partition, and Espionage
KW  - Historical Fiction
KW  - Hyderabad’s Fall, Partition, and a Story of Love, Secrets, and Betrayal
KW  - Historical Fiction of Hyderabad 1948
N1  - A sweeping historical coming-of-age novel set against India’s 1948 takeover of Hyderabad, The Sirens of September shifts between the palaces of princely Hyderabad, the refugee camps of post-Partition Bombay, army command rooms and the seedy lanes of London’s Piccadilly. Farishteh Ali Khan, an aristocratic teenager who enjoys a gilded existence, tumbles into a web of international espionage, political intrigue and dark family secrets. A few chance meetings between her and an air force pilot, Saleem El Edroos, lead to them striking up a long-distance courtship. When Hyderabad falls, the new regime makes the Ali Khans and the Edrooses answer for their old loyalties. The one person who can come to their aid can also tear Farishteh’s family apart
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