Karachi Vice
by Samira ShackleAvailable
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week A fast-paced journey around Karachi in the company of those who know the city inside out - from an electrifying new voice in narrative non-fiction.
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Meatless Days
by Sara Suleri GoodyearAvailable
In this finely wrought memoir of life in postcolonial Pakistan, Suleri intertwines the violent history of Pakistan's independence with her own most intimate memories—of her Welsh mother; of her...
The Nine Lives Of Pakistan
by Declan WalshChecked Out
The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country. Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international...
The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by Barker KimAvailable
Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent—she is candid, self-deprecating, laugh-out-loud funny. At first an awkward newbie in Afghanistan, she grows into a wisecracking,...
The Court Of The Caliphs: The Rise And Fall Of Islam's Greatest Dynasty
by Kennedy HughAvailable
From a rebellion planned in a remote desert town to the founding of Baghdad in AD 762, the rule of the Abbasid dynasty was looked back on as the golden era of the Islamic Conquest. The Muslim world...
Karma Cola
by Mehta GitaAvailable
Beginning in the late '60s, hundreds of thousands of Westerners descended upon India, disciples of a cultural revolution that proclaimed that the magic and mystery missing from their lives was to be...
The Argumentative Indian
by Sen AmartyaAvailable
In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy...
The Shape of the Beast
by Arundhati RoyAvailable
The Shape of the Beast is our world laid bare, with great courage, passion and eloquence, by a mind that has engaged unhesitatingly with its changing realities, often anticipating the way things have...
India: Emerging Power
by Philip Cohen StephenAvailable
For years, Americans have seen India as a giant but inept state. That negative image is now obsolete. After a decade of drift and uncertainty, India is taking its expected place as one of the three...
We are Displaced
by Malala YousafzaiAvailable
In this powerful book, Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces the people behind the statistics and news stories about the millions of people...
Being Pakistani
by Raza RumiAvailable
How different is Pakistan's culture from that of India? Exploring various aspects of the arts, literature and heritage of Pakistan, Raza Rumi argues that culture in Pakistan is not particularly...
Tawaifnama
by Saba DewanAvailable
Tawaifnama is the story of that process of change, a nuanced and powerful microhistory set against the sweep of Indian history. Dharmman Bibi rode into battle during the revolt of 1857 shoulder to...
