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“aamer hussein”

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  • Insomnia

    by Aamer Hussein ...
    On the shores of Lake Como a man and a woman talk about longing and belongingl; 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. Charting the geographies of leave-taking and homecoming, the consolations and rivalries of friendship, adolescent yearnings and maturity's ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Turquoise

    by Aamer Hussein ...
    Direct and startlingly intimate, Hussein's stories are set in troubled times - in Karachi, Lahore and London, where war, partition and military rule form the backdrop for the anticipation and anxiety of changing homes and family life, the hopes and failures of love and work. Turquoise is a collection of stories that illuminate the passions and fears of a world more complex and more beautiful than ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Another Gulmohar Tree

    by Aamer Hussein ...
    Usman is visiting post-war London from Pakistan when he meets a young aspiring artist called Lydia who has, like him, come out of an unhappy marriage. Just as the lonely strangers' friendship begins to blossom into something deeper Usman has to return to Karachi, leaving Lydia behind. Two years later, Lydia impulsively abandons her life in London and boards a ship to Karachi, where the two are ... Read more

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  • The Cloud Messenger

    by Aamer Hussein ...
    "A thing of beauty. . . . You must read it."—Nadeem Aslam"A shower of pleasures."—Julia O'Faolain"Sophisticated, cosmopolitan and seductive, the novel engages mind and senses alike."—André Naffis-Sahely, The Times Literary SupplementLike his parents, he too spent many hours sending cloud messages to other places, messages of longing for something that he knew existed otherwhere.London, that ... Read more

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  • Kahani

    Short Stories by Pakistani Women

    by Aamer Hussein ...
    Pakistan's finest women writers – Jamila Hasmi, Mumtaz Shirin and Fahmida Riaz among others – introduce us to the compelling cadences of rich literary culture. A naive peasant is left with a white man's baby; a frustrated housewife slashes her husband's silk pyjamas; a middle-class housewife sees visions of salvation in the tricks of circus animals… Equally at ease with polemic and lyricism, these ... Read more

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  • 37 Bridges and Other Stories

    by Aamer Hussein ...
    A masterful new collection from a leading exponent of the short story.A poem sparks off an epistolary exploration of romance, a television series consumes a writer's curiosity, a princess sets out in search of her husband, a young boy learns of love and loss at boarding school - Aamer Hussein infuses these stories with his musical, poetic sensibility. From the experimental 'The Tree at the Limit' ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • This Other Salt

    by Hussein Aamer ...
    Betrayal, bereavement, exile, belonging - these are the themes that resonate throughout This Other Salt. A writer torn between two loves looks for his lost words in the gap between memory, mourning and desire; a poet revenges herself on her faithless lover by turning their romance into a legend of biblical proportions; and a teenage boy's life uncannily begins to resemble the role he plays in a ... Read more

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  • Distant Traveller

    New and Selected Fiction

    by Attia Hosain ...
    The accidental discovery of chapters from an unfinished novel and of unpublished stories, made the publication of this anthology of Attia Hosain’s new and selected fiction an inevitability.Attia’s two worlds the Lucknow she grew up in and the London she later lived and worked in intersect and mesh in the stories and novel excerpts presented here, reflecting her deep and abiding concern with those ... Read more

    $4.21 CAD

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  • Midnight's Children

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  • The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

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  • Poovan Banana and Other Stories

    by Vaikom Muhammed Basheer(Author);Translated from Malayalam by V.Abdulla ...
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