My Friend, My Enemy: Essays, Reminiscences, Portraits
Ismat Chughtai
Translated and introduced by Tahira Naqvi

This selection from Ismat Chughtai’s prose writing comprises essays, commentaries and pen-portraits of the literary figures who were her contemporaries.

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This Time of Morning
Nayantara Sahgal

This Time of Morning is set in the early post-Independence years, when a new republic eagerly looks forward to a future full of hope. Rakesh, a young foreign service officer, who had grown up at a time when young men were ardent nationalists, returns to Delhi after a six-year absence to find many changes. He meets the new Advisor on Foreign Affairs, the controversial Kalyan Sinha, and is once again drawn to the magnetic personality of the politician whose ruthless manipulations are, in a way, a precursor of the moral corruption in the years to come. A rivettingly prescient novel.

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Heirloom—Revised Edition
Evening Tales from the East
Mariam Behnam

Once upon a time, as all good stories begin, life was full of wonder and imagination—for adults as well as for children. Long before cinema and television took over the world of fantasy with ready-made dreams, life was an exciting blend of stories and fairy-tales.

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An American Brat
Bapsi Sidhwa

As An American Brat opens in Pakistan, the extended family of sixteen-year-old Feroza Ginwalla, a lively and temperamental young girl, agonises over the decision to send Feroza to America for a three-month holiday. This act of apparent audacity arises from concern over Feroza’s conservative attitudes, which stem from Pakistan’s rising tide of fundamentalism.

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