A Daughter's Memoir - Fatima Bhutto Sings The Songs of Blood and Sword

Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir" what the book is about and what Fatima had to say at the reading in Bangalore.The grand daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the niece of Benazir Bhutto, the daughter of Murtuza Bhutto speaks in the Songs of Blood and Sword a Daughter's Memoir, of the slain Bhuttos' and the conspiracy. From the outset this is book is a very personal account of a dynasty that legacy was rife with violence in its political saga. Her book is being touted as one of the most important books of Pakistan a personal. it is a first hand history that is personal and a historically accurate account of the Bhuttos- who are often referred to as the First Family os Pakistan and its volatile politics.The book tells the story of the Bhuttos, a family of rich feudal landlords who became powerbrokers in the newly created state of Pakistan; the epic of four generations of a family and the political violence that would eventually destroy the family. It is the history of family and a nation driven by murder, corruption, conspiracy and division. Fatima Bhutto reveals what she went through and what the situations played out in real life which made the theme of the book even more compelling. At her book launch there was curiosity and intrigue as people listened to a highly courageous, intelligent and beautiful woman who is not only a Pakistani but a Bhutto nonetheless, an nepotic association that she personally feels she is better off without. Fatima Bhutto read excerpts from the book and then discussed it with Dr. Narendar Pani who is the Professor and Dean of School of Social Sciences. NIAS. She was born in Afghanistan in 1982, after which she moved with her father to Damascus where he was living in exile, where she lived with him until she could return to Pakistan for a holiday when she was 7 years old. She speaks about how she tried to be her father’s eyes while she was there taking in the sights and sounds with what she remembered from the storeies that he had told her of the magic in Pakistan. At her book reading, she reveals, that as a child her best memory was however connected to having “this nuclear green fizzy soda pop which as I child I thought, “oh my gosh this is delicious.””