FICTION

Insomnia
 Aamer Hussein

On the shores of Lake Como a man and a woman talk about longing and belonging; a translator finds himself drawn into the personal and political turmoil of the poet he translates; a woman’s quiet world is eroded by World War II and the division of her country.

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A Matter of Detail
Maniza Naqvi

Set in present day Karachi and New York, A Matter of Detail celebrates tolerance and love as potent antidotes for fear and silence. It is also a satire about the state of the state of the stateless. The story revolves around the family of Haji Rueewallah, a businessman in Karachi, his two wives, and their five children.

 
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No Space for Further Burials
Feryal Ali Gauhar

It is September 2002, one year after 9/11 and the US invasion of Afghanistan. A US Army medical technician is taken captive by Afghan rebels while on a recce mission, and thrown into an asylum with a dozen or so other inmates. Are they refugees from the war? Derelicts? Fugitives on the run? Men and women mad with grief and loss, or just exhausted by the repeated violation of their country?

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Colour of Mehndi
Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi

Nazli Akram seemed to have it all—a husband, two beautiful sons, and a picturesque house in the suburbs of Arizona. But her outwardly idyllic existence masked the chaos brewing within the confines of her own mind.

A young Pakistani American woman, struggling with a failing marriage and her own sacrificed ambitions, Nazli’s once-promising future quickly deteriorates as she succumbs to her own personal demons and follows a dangerous path of despair and mental illness.

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