BOOKS IN BRIEF

Published February 18, 2018

Saraab-i-Aagahi
Aisha Ghazi

A lawyer, molecular biologist, independent documentary filmmaker and a poet, Ghazi’s second collection of verses reflects the current state of humanity with poems about children in refugee camps, widows driven to suicide and corpses found on city streets.

Whiter than White
J.J. Baloch

Through this fictional account of a young woman battling hostile circumstances to rise to greatness, the author — a senior officer in the Police Service of Pakistan — sheds light on the systems of society and state that are designed to perpetuate male dominance.

Published in Dawn, Books & Authors, February 18th, 2018

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