Description
In these luminous stories, Intizar Husain turns the ache of dislocation into a searching, often haunting exploration of identity—what is lost when home is taken, and what survives when a life must be rebuilt elsewhere. Across varied settings, characters like Pichwa, an elevated misfit warrior uprooted from his native village, move through danger and moral uncertainty as they try to make meaning out of displacement. Husain’s fiction blends vivid social observation with mythic resonance, probing themes of exile, belonging, cultural memory, and the quiet violence that follows upheaval. With a style celebrated for its emotional clarity and narrative power, these stories form an unwritten epic of resilience—one that refuses easy answers while insisting on the human need to be seen and understood.
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Published Jan 1, 1987
350 pages
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First Published
1987
Language
eng
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