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      Basti

      by Intizar Husain
      Published
      Jan 2013
      Main Genre
      Historical Historical
      Pages
      136
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      An NYRB Classics Original

      Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain's extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and young, man and woman, Muslim and Hindu. Then Zakir, the hero, wakes to the modern world. Crowds gather. Slogans echo. Cities burn. Whether hunkered down with family or furtively meeting to exchange news with friends in cafés, Zakir is alone in a country lost to the politics of loneliness.

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      General Fiction

      Subgenres

      Historical

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      Dec 2012 NYRB Classics ISBN13 9781590175828 ISBN10 1590175824
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      First Edition Jan 2013 New York Review of Books ISBN13 9781590175972 ISBN10 1590175972
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      Dec 2012 NYRB Classics ISBN10 B007WKZSYO
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