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Books in Brief

2017-03-26
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.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.Yaad-i-Mufaragat Abdulrazak Gurnah Syed Saeed Naqvi`s translation of Gurnah`s Memory of Departure tells the story of Hassan who escapes his hani life at home only to find that seemingly wonderful opportunities are really just moie of the same.Bookshelf Dr Shaheen Mufti This collection of essays from Tamghai-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.