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The Death of Sheherzad
Engelsk Hardback
The Death of Sheherzad
Engelsk Hardback

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A man scours the town he left fifty years ago for some modest evidence of past joys. Javed, who has returned to Lahore from East Pakistan, won't speak of what he witnessed in his time away. In her dreams, an old woman boards a train full of dead ancestors. A sage who cannot control his anger must seek out a butcher for redemption. Mahaban, once the home of monkeys, is now a city filled with human beings. Sheherzad, who once told Emperor Shaharyar one thousand and one stories, is now an old woman who has forgotten her fantastical yarns. The fifteen stories in The Death of Sheherzad ably represent Intizar Husain's oeuvre, defying narrative tradition and exploring the past, specifically the Partition of India, as a means of unraveling the present. He imaginatively revisits a syncretic, tolerant, pluralistic past to analyze why the tide turned so irreversibly. Questioning everything faith, violence, society Husain probes the horrors of Partition in a manner as oblique as it is trenchant. Imbued with dark wit and literary brilliance, these stories at once shock, agitate, and entertain.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
232
ISBN-13:
9780857423931
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0857423932
Udg. Dato:
16 dec 2016
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
318mm
Højde:
167mm
Forlag:
Seagull Books London Ltd
Oplagsdato:
16 dec 2016
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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