Midnight Doorways
by Usman T MalikAvailable
With a meticulously designed cover and beautiful black-and-white illustrations by seven different Pakistani artists, Midnight Doorways is a unique community project highlighting the scope of...
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The Blind Man's Garden
by Aslam NadeemAvailable
The acclaimed author of The Wasted Vigil now gives us a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11: a story of war, of one family’s losses, and...
A Very Strange Man
by Ismat ChughtaiAvailable
This novel, set in the Bombay film world of the 1940s and' 50s, is the revetting story of Dharam Dev, the famous actor, director and producer, and his all-consuming and doomed passion for Zarina...
Inside the Haveli
by Mehta RamaAvailable
Inside the Haveli This Indian novel takes the reader behind the scenes of an ongoing deeply rooted tradition and into a way of life that for outsiders has long been veiled with mystery.
Magic Seeds
by Naipaul V.S.Available
Willie Chandran is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. In his early forties, after a peripatetic life, he succumbs to the encouragement of his sister – and his...
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The Painter of Signs
by Narayan R. K.Available
For Raman the sign painter, life is a familiar and satisfying routine. A man of simple, rational ways, he lives with his pious aunt and prides himself on his creative work. But all that changes when...
Half A Life
by Naipaul V.S.Available
In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent...
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The Song of Kahunsha
by Irani AnoshAvailable
Abandoned as an infant, ten-year-old Chamdi has spent his entire life in a Bombay orphanage. There he has learned to find solace in his everyday surroundings: the smell of the first rains, the vibrant...
American Dervish
by Ayad AkhtarAvailable
Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent...
Our Tainted Souls
by Maan MinaalAvailable
Ahmed- a privileged young man born into a world of exquisite dinner parties at the large estates on the outskirts of Lahore, bound to a political legacy that he wants nothing to do with. In a city...
Heat and Dust
by Jhabvala Ruth PrawerAvailable
Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important...
A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English
by Shamsie MuneezaAvailable
Including the work of well-known, award-winning writers such as Hanif Kureshi, Sara Suleri, Moniza Alvi, and Ahmed Ali, this is a selection of the fiction, poetry, and drama of over forty writers of...
