FICTION
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The Bride
Bapsi
Sidhwa
Travelling
alone from the isolated mountain village
where he was born, tribesman Qasim stumbles
across a lost, orphaned child. Unable to
abandon her to an inevitable fate, he names
her Zaitoon and brings her up as his daughter
in the glittering, bustling city of Lahore.
Lovingly raised in the colourful chaos of
that exotic city, Zaitoon is content in
her new life. Yet, as the years pass, Qasim
grows nostalgic about his life in the mountains.
Impulsively, he promises Zaitoon in marriage
to a man of his tribe, and in her romantic
imagination the fifteen-year-old girl sees
a region of tall, light-skinned men who
roam the Himalayas like gods.
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Screams
in the Night
SMI
Did
an artificial hand really push her down
the stairs? And why is the cupboard full
of mangled toys, each soaked in blood?
These
questions are haunting the five feisty friends,
Sheena, Aman, Akbar, Ant and Sindbad. Night
after night, Sabina Puri, Aman
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stylish and charming mother, screams in
her sleep. The doctor says she is suffering
from hallucinations. But the friends think
otherwise.
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Chughtai Collection: The Quilt and Other
Stories, The Heart Breaks Free, The Wild
One
Translated
by Tahira Naqvi & Syeda S. Hameed
This
collection of one of Urdu’s boldest
and most outspoken women writers of the
subcontinent, Ismat Chughtai, should have
a pride of place in all libraries and private
collections. Her greatness as the ‘Grand
Dame of Urdu fiction…as one of the four
pillars of Urdu short story writing’
makes her an icon in the world of literature.
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My
Temples, Too
Qurratulain
Hyder
Partition,
independence, democracy. My Temples,
Too tells the tale of the birth of
two new nations. Set in Lucknow of the 1940s,
Qurratulain Hyder’s masterly early
novel is a story of kinship, intimate friendships
and love in a context of political upheaval.
Rakshanda, Peechu, Kiran, Salim, Christabel—the
youthful protagonists are idealistic and
enthusiastic, fighting for a brave new world.
With the turbulence of Partition and Independence,
the quiet rhythms of domesticity are brutally
disrupted. New animosities replace old loyalties,
and the merry ‘Gang’ of Lucknow
is torn apart as the old order begins to
fragment.
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