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In this long-awaited second collection from Aamer Hussein, he continues and deepens his oblique, subversive portrayal of the preoccupations of our time: betrayal, bereavement, exile, belonging and the writer's role. In "This Other Salt" a writer, torn between two loves, looks for his lost words in the gap between memory, mourning and desire, in "The Lost Cantos of the Silken Tiger" a poet revenges herself on her faithless lover by turning thei...

Direct and startlingly intimate, Hussein' s stories are set in troubled times - in Karachi, Lahore and London - amid war, partition, and military rule, the anticipation and anxiety of changing homes or cities, the mixed blessings of 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 the media images of Islam and Paki...

In this long-awaited second collection from Aamer Hussein, he continues and deepens his oblique, subversive portrayal of the preoccupations of our time: betrayal, bereavement, exile, belonging and the writer's role. In "This Other Salt" a writer, torn between two loves, looks for his lost words in the gap between memory, mourning and desire, in "The Lost Cantos of the Silken Tiger" a poet revenges herself on her faithless lover by turning thei...

The first novel from an acclaimed short story writer. Follows a Pakistani teenager who goes to live in London, where his father once dwelled.

Exquisite stories that engage with the grand narratives of our time.

A naive peasant is left with a white man's baby, a middle-class housewife sees visions of salvation in the tricks of circus animals . . . In this collection of stories by Pakistan's finest women writers - including Jamila Hashmi

A beautiful account of a marriage that is in turns wry and unashamedly romantic.