A love letter to Karachi, told by the people linked together by one devastating event.
Shortlisted for the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
Winner of the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2014.
"The Scatter Here is Too Great" heralds a major new voice from Pakistan with a stunning debut -- a novel told in a rich variety of distinctive voices that converge at a single horrific event: a bomb blast at a station in the heart of the city.
Comrade Sukhansaz, an old communist poet, is harassed on a bus full of college students minutes before the blast. His son, a wealthy...