Aamer Hussein

• May-2018
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What is Past, Present and Future? It's an anthology to explore stories across time and space, of a land known for its ancient civilization and modern boundaries. The stories included reflect a part of the country and its people, covering a variety of...

• Apr-2015
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A masterful new collection from a leading exponent of the short story.A poem sparks off an epistolary exploration of romance, a television series consumes a writer's curiosity, a princess sets out in search of her husband, a young boy learns of ...

• Sep-2011
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"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." -- André Naffis-Sahely, The Times Literary SupplementLike hi...

• Jul-2009
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Usman is visiting post-war London from Pakistan when he meets a young aspiring artist called Lydia who has, like him, come out of an unhappy marriage. Just as the lonely strangers' friendship begins to blossom into something deeper Usman has to r...

• Aug-2007
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On the shores of Lake Como a man and a woman talk about longing and belongingl; a translator finds himself drawn into the personal and political turmoil of the poet he translates; a woman's quiet world is eroded by World War II and the division o...

• Jul-2005
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Pakistan's finest women writers -- Jamila Hasmi, Mumtaz Shirin and Fahmida Riaz among others -- introduce us to the compelling cadences of rich literary culture. A naive peasant is left with a white man's baby; a frustrated housewife slas...

• May-2003
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Aamer Hussein's fiction is informed by a rich tradition of Urdu poetry and an intimate knowledge of western writing, This volume collects sixteen of his stories, each elegiac in quality, and includes an introduction and afterword....

• Jul-2002
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Direct and startlingly intimate, Hussein's stories are set in troubled times - in Karachi, Lahore and London, where war, partition and military rule form the backdrop for the anticipation and anxiety of changing homes and family life, the hopes a...

• Feb-2000
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In this collection of stories by Pakistan's finest women writers we are introduced to the intricate narrative patterns and compelling cadences of a rich literary culture which deserves to be better known. Spanning the entire fifty years of a new nati...

• Mar-1999
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