No Honour cover art

No Honour

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

No Honour

By: Awais Khan
Narrated by: Nikki Patel
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £15.99

Buy Now for £15.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

In 16-year-old Abida's small Pakistani village, there are age-old rules to live by and her family's honour to protect. And, yet, her spirit is defiant, and she yearns to make a home with the man she loves. When the unthinkable happens, Abida faces the same fate as other young girls who have chosen unacceptable alliances - certain public death.

Fired by a fierce determination and aided by her devoted father, Jamil, she escapes to Lahore but then disappears. Jamil goes to Lahore in search of Abida - a city where the prejudices that dominate their village take on a new and horrifying form - and father and daughter are caught in a world from which they may never escape.

©2021 Awais Jhan (P)2021 Isis Publishing Ltd City Life Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction United States Urban World Literature City

Listeners also enjoyed...

 In the Company of Strangers cover art
Someone Like Her cover art
All the Tomorrows cover art
The Color of Our Sky cover art
The Secrets Between Us cover art
The Housemaid cover art
Inside an Honor Killing cover art
Independence cover art
The Missing Girls of Alardyce House cover art
Well-Behaved Indian Women cover art
Everybody's Son cover art
Uninvited cover art
Four Fires cover art
The Go-Between cover art
Out of the Silence cover art
Daughters of India cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
This book was addictive and beautifully written. It was hard to listen to in places, but that is due to the intense the of the book. This is a necessary listen and I will be researching the reality to find out more.

Hard hitting but gripping

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Shocking in parts, over dramatic in others.. I am left wondering if this is drama or based on truth/ well narrated

Gripping story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A combination of good writing and gentle beautiful narration makes this book absolutely worth a listen to .This isn't the easiest subject to listen to but the author manages to make the point sensitively that there are women and their families experiencing things in life that we can only pretend to understand until we hear stories like these.. with this you can feel the tender beating hopefull hearts on every page ,just looking for better things ahead , a difficult subject is dealt with care and for me is done very well. You feel you are right there and want to stand up with the family and all the girls and women ,a story told really well all the way through

Tender narration and heartfelt story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I really enjoyed this book. It enlightened me on the situation in Pakistan and about the plight of these girls and honour killings. Made me appreciate how privileged we are in the west and how we should do more

Wonderful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Another stunning novel by Pakistan's king of fiction!

No Honour grips you from the very beginning and doesn't let you go. It's a story of immense heart, the triumph of the human spirit and, ultimately, love.

We follow Abida's journey from a rural Pakistani village to the slums of Lahore, as she encounters a string of horrifying circumstances, all because of her illegitimate child. As events spiral out of control, the reader is catapulted into a den of crime and entangled frictions.

Through the novel, Awais highlights the disparity of women's lives in Pakistan and the double standards involved in honour killing. He brings a much-needed inspection of this barbaric practice with the authenticity of culture rarely seen in British fiction. The writing is mature, nuanced and compelling.

The story is full of realistic and believable characters. One of my absolute favourites is Shahid. I won't spoil it, but he's so great! I even cried at the end, and I NEVER cry at anything!

The novel is hopeful and inspiring, but it never strays into sugary territory. This is a much-needed double espresso in the world of fiction. Punchy, enlightening, urgent. A brilliant book by a brilliant author.

Nikki Patel does a great job of narration, and adds real depth to the performance. I highly recommend it!

Heartbreaking brilliance.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Good narrator with depth to the story. Lovely description and details within story of a sad yet humbling story of an unfortunately all too common life position of some women within the world

Worth it

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.