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  • This Other Salt

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Insomnia

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Another Gulmohar Tree

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Turquoise

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Kahani

    Short Stories by Pakistani Women

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Cloud Messenger

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Distant Traveller

    New and Selected Fiction

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • 37 Bridges and Other Stories

    par 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' ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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    A City in Short Fiction

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  • Midnight's Children

    A Novel

    par Salman Rushdie ...
    Winner of the Booker prize and twice winner of the Booker of Bookers, Midnight's Children is "one of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation" (New York Review of Books). Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the original publication--with a new introduction from the author--Salman Rushdie's widely acclaimed novel is a masterpiece in literature.Saleem ... En savoir plus

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  • The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

    A novel

    par Arundhati Roy ...
    **2017 Man Booker Prize Longlist2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist**The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a dazzling new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things. It takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Dehli and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and ... En savoir plus

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  • Poovan Banana and Other Stories

    This carefully selected collection of Vaikom Muhammad Basheers short stories are characterised by a variety in theme and tone. He has enshrined in them every kind of experience from the pangs of hunger and sex to the rapture of mystic vision. Its range includes stark realistic pictures of the material world as well as the realm of fantasy haunted by ghosts and spirits. Basheer has written on love ... En savoir plus

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