Description
In a sunlit Karachi household where stories, art, and family rituals seem to promise safety, an 11-year-old boy named Hasan watches the world around him begin to fracture. As his beloved uncle Salman—once a powerful political figure—faces confinement and surveillance, Hasan’s private attempts to protect him collide with forces far beyond a child’s control. With melancholic lyrical precision, the novel traces how political oppression seeps into everyday life, reshaping love, loyalty, and even the smallest hopes. Blending the quotidian with tragedy, it explores the fragile boundary between childhood innocence and the urgent realities of power, fear, and moral helplessness in a changing city.
Available Editions
paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published Jun 21, 2004
272 pages
ISBN: 9780747571643
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Details
First Published
1998
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for In the City by the Sea by Kamila Shamsie.