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Readers and critics have compared Masud to Kafka, Borges and Murakami. But it is best to speak of his style as pure Masud, for no other writer has rendered a fictional world quite like that of this master storyteller. His prose is spare and seductive and his stories have a shimmering, elusive quality. Although individually perfectly formed and complete, yet each story appears to have no beginning or end, drawing the reader into a seamless narrative structure. The coming of age of a young boy who looks for domains of fear and desire in the houses he inspects, a man`s life shaped by his father`s dreams and his mother`s devotion, a walk down memory lane to fulfil a mother`s dying wish, a beautiful girl with deformed feet—the reader begins to inhabit a world where illusions are as stark as day, and experience Masud`s writing in a metaphysical, almost Sufi-like, sense. ISBN: 014309971X
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Pages : 264
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