“Drawing on legend, history, memoir, literature, and film, Hussein’s stories are meant to be cupped in both hands and savored slowly.”—GuardianIn his fourth collection, Aamer Hussein charts the geogra
"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."?Andre Naffis-Sahe
Aamer Hussein was born in Karachi in 1955 and moved to London in his teens. He is the author of This Other Salt, Turquoise and Insomnia, and the editor of Kahani (Saqi and Telegram). He reviews regul
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
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 write
