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Imran is a boy growing up in present-day Pakistan. His family is one amongst many in Mohajir Colony: his sisters work as maids, his father runs a motorcycle repair shop and his mother stays at home. Things change
when there is a new visitor in the house – emerging from the dust of the railroad graveyard – as much a
disease, a jinn, a drug, as a spiritual voice. The order of things is broken and everyone around Imran is
hurled onto a trajectory of thought and action.
The novel rests on the frail shoulders of ordinary people. Imran’s eyes portray an unreal take on his society
and the myriad people brushing past him. It is a living/breathing/kicking palette of Pakistan – a kaleidoscope
with all the different characters serving as mirrors in the maze. Beneath the layers, a new subconscious
state is revealed, which plays with real and imagined love, the experience of growing up in Pakistan and
the detrimental, often absurd, ideals that form the basis of fundamentalism.
ISBN - 9788186939581
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Pages : 288
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