May 04, 2008
Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors.
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A rich tapestry
 A short story is far harder to write than a novel. In a novel, the author has hundreds of pages in which to meander from beginning to end; she can take creative license with text and style, and do it with a cast of characters large enough to populate a five-star hotel....
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EXCERPT: The Angelic Disposition
 I first met Rafi Durrani — when? I’d seen him, heard him read his stories, long before I first spoke to him. Once, at a picnic, he sang a melancholy Punjabi wedding song, I remember the way he entered a room: swaggering slightly...
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REVIEWS: Breaking free
 Carol Jessop’s book is a strangely disturbing and shocking true story of life within the religious cult called Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). This was a break-away faction of Mormonism, itself a religious sect of Christianity...
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REVIEWS: Painted words
 The Dreamer Awakes is a book containing 37 poems and 51 art images put together by Beo Zafar and Tabinda Chinoy and lauded by such icons as Khushwant Singh and Bapsi Sidhwa, both of whom wrote congratulatory pieces for the book....
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REVIEWS: Guilty as charged
 In the 1990s, John Grisham was not only the king of the legal thriller but also the regent of sales. He sold more than 60 million copies of his books, including a record two million prints of several of his first editions. To this day he is the only novelist...
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LITERARY BUZZ: Top honour
 Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist has been short-listed for this year''s installment of the James Tait Black Memorial prizes. The prizes are UK’s oldest literary awards, comprising two £10,000 awards for books published in 2007...
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REVIEWS: Fast forward
 FOR most lovers of good old-fashioned crime thrillers — apart from those penned out by masters like Agatha Christie, Earle Stanley Gardener, Ian Fleming, Alfred Hitchcock or of late, John Grisham — there has been a dearth of good writers in recent times....
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AUTHOR "Musharraf Ali Farooqi" : Realms of literary imagination
 The linguistic and literary skill of Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s 900-page English translation of The Adventures of Amir Hamza is an astonishing feat. The creativity with which he has transposed the language of the great 19th-century classic Dastan-i-Amir Hamza...
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ARTICLE: Dubliners reading Gulliver’s Travels
 These days thousands of Dubliners may be reading a novel by one of their city’s strangest literary sons. An unsettling fable of power, corruption and lies, it was an immediate bestseller when originally published and has been translated into countless languages.....
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REVIEWS
 Al-Qaeda Fights Back: Inside Pakistani Tribal Areas is a detailed analysis of the situation and the dealings of the Mujahideen and the militants who have established their bases in Pakistan’s tribal areas. The study is a joint effort of Mohammad Amir...
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REVIEW: Visions of independence
 ENCYCLOPEDIC in content, Dr Muhammad Arif’s Urdu Novel Aur Azaadi Ke Tasuwarrat, is an invaluable contribution the little known role of Urdu novels through the pre- and post-Independence periods. The book is a marvel of painstaking...
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ARTICLE: The beloved
 ‘Bullhe nun parhaya te oh sarangi phar nacheya te ganveya. Tenun parhaya te tun ishqiya qisse likhe.’ (I taught Bulleh Shah and he danced and sang playing a violin. I taught you and you wrote a love story), were the alleged painful remarks....
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COLUMN: Leading the way
 THE book meant to be launched came as a big surprise; the audience hardly knew what the book was about. It was in fact a novel titled Khushboo ki Hijrat comprising about 900 pages. This voluminous novel came fresh off the printing press....
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