A few days ago, I mentioned Benazir Bhutto’s newest book, Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West, which was slated for April publication. Today, Publishers Weekly reports that the pub date has been moved to February 12.
Bhutto’s husband and children have added a “short afterword.” They call the book an “argument for a reconciliation of Islam with democratic principles, in the face of opposition from Islamic extremists and Western skeptics. Drawing on her own faith, and on her own bitter experience of division and hatreds in Pakistan, she speaks movingly and persuasively of a future for Pakistan within the Islamic world and presents arguments that resonate with extraordinary power. In the book she writes of her own joy in returning to Pakistan in October and the tragic circumstances of the terrible assassination attempt and links these events with her own implacable belief in a democratic future for her country.”
