Intizar Husain

The Sea Lies Ahead (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1947, young Jawad Hassan gives up his ancestral home in India and his fiancee Maimuna for a dream country founded by Jinnah. And even though the newly created state of Pakistan is thronged by a huge number of zealous Muslims ready to lead from the front, the rapid breakdown of law and order in Karachi makes many, like Jawad, retreat into reminiscences of their past in undivided India. The second in Intizar Husain's acclaimed trilogy, The Sea Lies Ahead takes up the story of Pakistan where the first novel Basti (1979) ended: poised on the verge of breaking off from its eastern arm. This is a novel about those muhajirs, the author himself among them, who went to the promised Land of the Pure and were met with mistrust, prejudice and apathy. Equally, it is a rich portrait of the new culture of urban Pakistan fostered by people who came from the countless towns and hamlets in and around Lucknow, Meerut and Delhi. Bringing alive unforgettable characters with its sparkling prose, this novel is a powerful exploration of Islamic history and the story of Pakistan's great disillusionment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Collins India
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789352775040
• Artikelnr.: 51321313

Autorenporträt

Intizar Husain was born in the United Provinces, India, on 21 December 1925. He emigrated to Pakistan in 1947 and nowlives in Lahore. He has written seven collections of short stories and five novels, Naya Ghar, Basti and Aage Samandar Hai being the most significant among them. Considered one of the greatest living Urdu writers of our time, he was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013. Rakhshanda Jalil is a writer, translator and literary historian. She has published over fifteen books, including Liking Progress, Loving Change: A Literary History of the Progressive Writers' Movement in Urdu; A Rebel and Her Cause: The Life and Work of Comrade Rashid Jahan; The Death of Sheherzad by Intizar Husain translated from the Urdu; Invisible City: The Hidden Monuments of Delhi; as well as four edited volumes of short stories. Her debut collection of fiction, Release and Other Stories, was published in 2011 and received critical acclaim. She runs an organization called Hindustani Awaaz, devoted to the popularization of Hindi-Urdu literature and culture, and writes a weekly column for Daily O.