Contemporary Literary Fiction

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By Haider Warraich

ISBN-10: 818693958X

ISBN-13: 9788186939581

Imran is a boy becoming up in present-day Pakistan. His relatives is one among many in Mohajir Colony: his sisters paintings as maids, his father runs a bike fix store and his mom remains at domestic. issues switch while there's a new customer in the home - rising from the dirt of the railroad graveyard - as a lot a disorder, a jinn, a drug, as a non secular voice. The order of items is damaged and everybody round Imran is hurled onto a trajectory of proposal and motion. the radical rests at the frail shoulders of normal humans. Imran's eyes painting an unreal tackle his society and the myriad humans brushing earlier him. it's a living/breathing/kicking palette of Pakistan - a kaleidoscope with all of the diverse characters serving as mirrors within the maze. underneath the layers, a brand new unconscious country is published, which performs with actual and imagined love, the event of growing to be up in Pakistan and the unsafe, frequently absurd, beliefs that shape the root of fundamentalism.

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