Khwaab Gar

Altaf Fatima

Set before the creation of Pakistan, this novel follows the lives of people compelled to leave their homes in the mountains of Baltistan and Skardu to find new livelihoods in the plains of Punjab.

Yaad-i-Mufaraqat

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Syed Saeed Naqvi’s translation of Gurnah’s Memory of Departure tells the story of Hassan who escapes his hard life at home only to find that seemingly wonderful opportunities are really just more of the same.

Barzakh ke Phool

Javed Anwar

The poet’s fourth collection of nazm and ghazal harnesses an eclectic range of concepts and ideas, from flowers and cheetahs, to the relationship between a newspaper and a pair of spectacles.

Bookshelf

Dr Shaheen Mufti

This collection of essays from Tamgha-i-Imtiaz awardee Dr Mufti are, in her words, not critiques or research, but observations on how different kinds of literature elicit different responses from readers.

Published in Dawn, Books & Authors, March 26th, 2017