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The House of Bilqis
Refusing to join her son and daughter-in-law in their new home in Australia, Pakistani woman Bilqis Ara Begum witnesses the rising insurgency in 1980s Kashmir and observes a forbidden relationship between her servant girl and a neighbor boy.
Passarola Rising
On The Twenty-Seventh Day Of The Month Of June, In The Year Of Grace 1731, My Brother, Bartolomeu Lourenço, Rose On His Airship From The Ancient Ramparts Of São Jorge Castle. I Remember The Day As Clearly As If It Were Yesterday. . . Thus Begins Passarola Rising, A Fabulous Historical Tale Of Two Brothers And Their Love Of Flight. Bartolomeu Lourenço Builds The Airship Passarola To Escape The Intellectually Stultifying Climate Of Eighteenth-Century Portugal, Where His Pursuit Of Scientific Knowledge Is Condemned As Heresy. He And His Brother Alexandre Take To The Air, And Journey Through Much Of Europe, From The Spanish Countryside To The Salons And Bordellos Of Paris, Encountering Some O...
Twilight
In Karachi, Bilqis Ara Begum, Proud Custodian Of Her Family&Rsquo;S Traditions, Prepares For The Wedding Reception Of Her Son Samad. The Family Has Gathered, The Servants Have Been Given Their Instructions, The Invitations Sent To Pakistan&Rsquo;S Upper Crust. But Bilqis Is Restless&Mdash;This Is Not What She Had Planned For Her Only Son: Kate, Whom Samad Has Recently Married, Is Australian And Middle Class. While Bilqis Struggles To Reassure Herself Of Her Son&Rsquo;S Commitment To The Family, Their Customs And, Most Of All, To Herself, Pakistan Is Facing Turmoil. Having Fortified His Dictatorship Through A Sham Referendum, General Zia Is Now Set On Imposing Orthodox Muslim Law On The Count...
Granta 112
Filled with almost 200 million people speaking nearly sixty languages, brought into nationhood under the auspices of a single religion, but wracked with deep separatist fissures and the destabilizing forces of ongoing conflicts in Iran, Afghanistan and Kashmir, Pakistan is one of the most dynamic places in the world today. From the writers who are living outside the country - Kamila Shamsie and Nadeem Aslam - to those going back - Mohsin Hamid and Mohammed Hanif - to those who are living there and writing in Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Baluchi and English, there is a startling opportunity to draw together an exciting collection of voices at the forefront of a literary renaissance. Other contributors include Fatima Bhutto and Basharat Peer. Granta 112: Pakistan will seize this moment, bringing to life the landscape and culture of the country in fiction, reportage, memoir, travelogue and poetry. Like the magazine's issues on India and Australia, its release will be a watershed moment critically and a chance to celebrate the corona of talent which has burst onto the English language publishing world in recent years.
White Masks
Why was the corpse of Khalil Ahmad Jaber found in a mound of rubbish? Why did he disappear weeks before his horrific death? And who was he? A journalist begins to piece the truth together by speaking with his widow, a local engineer, a nightwatchman, the garbage man who discovered him, the doctor who performed the autopsy, and a young militiaman. Their stories underline the horrors of Lebanon's bloody civil war and its ravaging effects on the psyches of the survivors. With empathy and candour, Elias Khoury reveals the havoc the war wreaked on Beirut and its inhabitants, as well as their dogged resilience.
Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia
A new understanding of the transformation of Anatolia to a Muslim society in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries based on previously unpublished sources.
Hybrid Tapestries
"Celebrating 70 years of Pakistan, the platinum series."
Slavery And Freedom
This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, slaveholders and non-slaveholders, and for the rise of a racist ideology.
The Adventures of Amir hamza
Here is the first unabridged English translation of a major Indo-Persian epic: a panoramic tale of magic and passion, a classic hero’s odyssey that has captivated much of the world. It is the spellbinding story of Amir Hamza, the adventurer who in the service of the Persian emperor defeats many enemies, loves many women, and converts hundreds of infidels to the True Faith before finding his way back to his first love. In Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s faithful rendition, this masterwork is captured with all its colorful action and fantastic elements intact. Appreciated as the seminal Islamic epic or enjoyed as a sweeping tale as rich and inventive as Homer’s epic sagas, The Adventures of Amir Hamza is a true literary treasure.
How It Happened
Dadi, the imperious matriarch of the Bandian family in Karachi, swears by the virtues of arranged marriage. All her ancestors – including a dentally and optically challenged aunt – have been perfectly well-served by such arrangements. But her grandchildren are harder to please. Haroon, the apple of her eye, has to suffer half a dozen candidates until he finds the perfect Shia-Syed girl of his dreams. But it is Zeba, his sister, who has the tougher time, as she is accosted by a bevy of suitors, including a potbellied cousin and a banker who reeks of sesame oil. Told by the witty, hawk-eyed Saleha, the precocious youngest sibling, this is a romantic, amusing and utterly delightful story about how marriages are made and unmade---not in heaven, but in the drawing room and over the phone.
