by Jamil Ahmad
This is pretty interesting for a novel with no continuous plot and no appreciable character development. It was written by an eighty-year-old man who had a long civil service career in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas around the Pakistan/Afghanistan border. This is where the book is set. The ...
This is such a wonderful book. The author offers in-site into a land and culture that is relatively unknown. This would be a wonderful book for a book club to read. The book starts out with two people wandering in the desert searching for refuge. Although the people do not last through out the ...
These are a set of tales linked by one character - an orphan - and set along the Pakistan/Afghan border and brilliantly evoke the region giving a wonderful portrait of a little-known lifestyle. Wonderful writing, at times horrifying and uncomfortable but definitely worth it.
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