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Turquoise / Aamer Hussein.
Van Pelt Library PR6058.U738 T87 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hussein, Aamer, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 154 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Saqi Books, 2002.
- Summary:
- 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 cities, the mixed blessings of family life, the hopes and failures of love and work. "Turquoise" is a collection of stories that illuminate the passions and fears of a world more complex and more beautiful than the media images of Islam and Pakistan convey.
- Contents:
- Cactus town
- Electric shadows
- What do you call those birds?
- The city of longing
- Adiba: a storyteller's tale
- Turquoise
- The needlewoman's calendar.
- Notes:
- Short stories.
- ISBN:
- 0863563252
- OCLC:
- 50685787
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