A collection of stories set in troubled times in Karachi, Lahore and London. War, partition and military rule form the backdrop for the anticipation and anxiety of changing homes and family life, and the hopes and failures of love and work.
A collection of stories set in troubled times in Karachi, Lahore and London. War, partition and military rule form the backdrop for the anticipation a...
In this long-awaited second collection from Aamer Hussein, he continues and deepens his oblique, subversive portrayal of the preoccupations of our time: betrayal, bereavement, exile, belonging and the writer's role. In "This Other Salt" a writer, torn between two loves, looks for his lost words in the gap between memory, mourning and desire; in "The Lost Cantos of the Silken Tiger" a poet revenges herself on her faithless lover by turning their romance into a biblical legend; and in "The Blue Direction" a teenage boy's life uncannily begins to resemble the role he plays in a school operetta....
In this long-awaited second collection from Aamer Hussein, he continues and deepens his oblique, subversive portrayal of the preoccupations of our tim...
A naive peasant is left with a white man's baby; a middle-class housewife sees visions of salvation in the tricks of circus animals . . . In this collection of stories by Pakistan's finest women writers - including Jamila Hashmi
A naive peasant is left with a white man's baby; a middle-class housewife sees visions of salvation in the tricks of circus animals . . . In this coll...
