“aamer hussein”

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" i... More

In this long-awaited second collection from Aamer Hussein, he continues and deepens his oblique, subversive portrayal of the preoccupations of our time: betrayal, bereavement, exile, belonging and the writer's role. In "This Other Salt" a writer, torn between two loves, looks for his lost words in t... More

Four Walls and a Black Veil contains a representative selection of Fahmida Riaz's poetry. It tracks her emotional and intellectual journey from a lovelorn childhood to her deep commitment to human dignity, peace, and secularism in the Indo-Pak subcontinent.... More

Acclaimed both in Pakistan and in Britain, Aamer Hussein’s first collection of stories, Mirror to the Sun, was chosen by Shena Mackay as one of her Books of the Year 1993. In his long awaited second collection—which includes the experimental sequence ‘Skies’—he continues and deepens his ob... More