Military Inc.

Pakistan occupies a paradoxical, even contradictory place in American foreign policy. Nominally a strategic ally in the war on terror, it is the third-largest recipient of US aid in the world. At the...

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The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters

A moving and heart-warming modern British Muslim take on Little Women from growing star brand and former Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain.

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The Crow Eaters

At the dawn of the 20th century in Pakistan, Freddy Junglewalla moves his family — pregnant wife, baby daughter, and Jerbanoo, his rotund mother-in-law — from their ancestral forest home to...

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Welcome To Americastan

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The In-Eligible Bachelors

Arranged marriages are complicated things. So are relationships. And so are mothers. Kasturi Shukla is a fresh MBA graduate with a great job in hand. She is also geeky and single at 24.The biggest...

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Last Man in Tower

From the Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger, a stunning novel of greed and murder in contemporary Mumbai. At the heart of this novel are two equally compelling men, poised for a...

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The Writing on My Forehead

A free-spirited and rebellious Muslim-American of Indo-Pakistani descent, willful, intelligent Saira Qader rejected the constricting notions of family, duty, obligation, and fate, choosing instead to...

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The Verdict

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Burnt Sugar

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent...

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Freedom Song

A boy spends a summer and a winter with his parents in a Bombay high-rise, and spends other summers in Calcutta immersed in the more traditional life of his uncle's extended family ... A young man at...

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A Chughtai Collection

Collection of three collections by leading Urdu writer, trans. by Tahira Naqvi.includes "The Quilt and Other Stories, The Heart Breaks Free, and The Wild One.

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