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Source: Goodreads About the Book A roller-coaster fantasy horror story with Jinns, demons and nagins Mehran is a handsome young Rajput aristocrat – without a grand title, estate or any wealth. He lives with his widowed mother in a decaying mansion in Pakistan, Remembering his beautiful cousin boyer and his childhood in the glittering estate of his Nawab uncle in India. But hidden behind the grandeur of the old palace is a dreadful curse that strikes every heir to the nawabs line. Tragedy hits when, on a red moon night, a demon arrives and koyel falls victim to the terrifying curse. Little does Mehran know that the curse will soon visit him and he will find himself in a world of demons, monsters and nagins. About the Author Imran Kureshi lives in Pakistan. He is a former employee of the Pakistan State Oil Company Limited and has been a freelance editor of books and PhD theses for over sixteen years. His collection of short stories set in rural Punjab, titled Billa ...

Introduction Source: Goodreads.com ISBN:978-93-5304-142-7 Genre:  Non-Fiction Publishers: Rupa Publications Price: Rs. 295/- (I got the book for review from the publisher)

Introduction (C) Privy Trifles ISBN :    978-938621-5383 Genre:  Fiction  Publishers: Pan Macmilan India Price:  Rs. 450/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publisher )

Introduction Source: Amazon.in ISBN :    978-9386-2287-03 Genre:  Fiction / Anthologies Publishers: Rupa Publications Price:  Rs. 299/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publisher )

Introduction Source: Amazon.in ISBN :    978-9386021946 Genre:  Non-Fiction Publishers: Aleph Book Company Price:  Rs. 599/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publisher )

Introduction Source: Amazon.in ISBN :    978-8129151889 Genre:  Fiction Publishers: Rupa Publications India Price:  Rs. 295/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publisher )

Introduction Source: Goodreads.com ASIN :  B079GY1YJR Genre:  Fiction/ Fantasy Publishers: Amazon Price:  Rs. 319/-  ( I got the book for review from the  author )

Introduction ISBN :  978-8129149671 Genre: Non-Fiction/Biography / Politics Publishers: Rupa Publications India Price:  Rs. 500/-  ( I got the book for review from the publisher )

Introduction ISBN: 978-0670089420 Genre: Fiction/Drama Publishers: Penguin Random House Price: Rs. 499/-   Set in Lahore, This House of Clay and Water explores the lives of two women. Nida, intelligent and lonely, has married into an affluent political family and is desperately searching for some meaning in her existence; and impulsive, lovely Sasha, from the ordinary middle-class, whose longing for designer labels and upmarket places is so frantic that she willingly consorts with rich men who can provide them. Nida and Sasha meet at the famous Daata Sahib dargah and connect-their need to understand why their worlds feel so alien and empty, bringing them together. On her frequent visits to the dargah, Nida meets the gentle, flute-playing hijra Bhanggi, who sits under a bargadh tree and yearns for acceptance and affection, but is invariably shunned. A friendship-fragile, tentative and tender-develops between the two, both exiles within their own lives; but it flies...

Introduction ISBN: 978-81-291-4739-4 Genre: Fiction Publishers: Rupa Publishers Price: Rs. 295/-  ( I got the book for review from the publisher ) I write because I need you to know what I cannot say. I write about the past, about family, about country, because they all speak to me about my father…’ Addressed to Hyder, his son, Omar Zafarullah’s A Hundred Journeys is part memoir and part manual for living. With the help of his family’s personal history, the author attempts to explain Pakistan to Hyder, a narrative which is intensely personal but deeply political too. The journey begins in the early 1900s when the family migrates from Ropar (in India’s Punjab) to Gojra (in Pakistan’s Punjab) in search of a better future. The book is filled with inspiring characters—Zafarullah’s great-grandmother, Maaji, a woman with an iron will who challenged patriarchy in her efforts to take the family out of the throes of poverty; his highly respected doctor–grandfather whose perse...

Introduction ISBN: 9788175993983 Genre: Fiction / Drama Publishers: Fingerprint Price:  Rs.299/- ( I got this book from the publisher for a review ) Afia Satar is studious, modest, and devout. The young daughter of a landholding family in northern Pakistan, Afia has enrolled in an American college with the dream of returning to her country as a doctor. But when a photo surfaces online of Afia holding hands with an American boy, she is suddenly no longer safe—even from the family that cherishes her. An ambitious athlete, Shahid Satar has been entrusted by his family to watch over Afia in this strange New England landscape. Having convinced their parents to allow his sister to come to the U.S., Shahid wants only to focus, right now, on the win over Harvard that could clinch a job for him in the United States. He never imagined he’d be ordered, instead, to cleanse family honour with his sister’s blood. Behind the book Source: Goodreads.com