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by Carollee Bengelsdorf, Margaret Cerullo and Yogesh Chandrani
The book has a series of themes beginning with the revolutionary theory and counterinsurgency, moving on to the analysis of post-colonial states in the Third World, the Cold War and its aftermath, and finally the Middle Eastern and South Asian impasses and hopes...read more
| |  | | The Diary of a Social Butterfly
by Moni Mohsin
Meet butterfly, Pakistan’s most lovable, silly socialite. An avid partygoer, inspired misspeller, and unwittingly acute observer of Pakistani high society, Butterfly is a woman like no other...read more
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by Brigadier Musharraf Ali Farooqi
The Arabian Nights of the Mughal world in its definitive English translation – here is the spellbinding story of Amir Hamza, adventurer and uncle of prophet Muhammad, who travels to exotic lands, defeats many enemies and...read more
| |  | | Basti
by Intizar Husain
Intizar Husain’s novel Basti, considered one of the finest works written on the theme of partition, recalls and re-evokes the story of Pakistan, from Partition until the loss of Bangladesh. Originally written in Urdu and first published in 1979, Basti poignantly captures the tragic succumbing of paradise to the corrosive powers of time through the emotional journey of its main protagonist, Zakir...read more
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by Munshi Premchand
One of Premchand’s most successful Hindi novels, Sevasadan is a bold statement on the political and religious debates about marriage, sexuality, and prostitution, at a time when Indian women were being held up as standard-bearers of a nation in chains...read more
| |  | | The Project: A Novel
by Sher Shah
Shortly after Partition, the father of the people died and the nation lost its direction. A group of retired professionals who had not lost sight of the original dream came together to form a core of resistance. They vowed to save Pakistan...read more
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by Abdul Halim Sharar
Firdaus-e-Bareen, of which this book is a translation, is the best-known work of an outstanding Urdu writer. Yet, in 1899, when he finished writing it, Abdul Halim Sharar could hardly have guessed how interesting and relevant his novel would sound in the twenty-first century, more than a hundred years after he wrote it...read more
| |  | | Selected Poems of Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi (Urdu-English)
Translated by Sajjad Shaikh
Qasimi’s poetry and short stories reveal his unflinching faith in universal human values, such as liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy and social justice. Presented here along with their English translation are two hundred of his select poems...read more
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Translated by Tahira Naqvi & Syeda S. Hameed
This collection of one of Urdu’s boldest and most outspoken women writers of the subcontinent, Ismat Chughtai, should have pride of place in all libraries and private collections...read more
| |  | | Masterpieces of Humorous Urdu Poetry
by K. C. Kanda
Humorous and satirical Urdu poetry, translated verse by verse, from Urdu to English, drawn from the works of seventeen major poets, including the classics like Mohammed Rafi Sauda and Akbar Allahabadi...read more
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by Sehba Sarwar
Sehba Sarwar spins a compelling tale of love and loss, weaving the story of Yasmeen’s estrangement from family, culture and homeland with the unraveling of a haunting family secret...read more
| |  | | Hunters and the Hunted
by Mustafa Karim
A story of love, passion, hatred and revenge and how innocence is destroyed by evils lurking in human souls...read more
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Premchand is one of the most outstanding figures in twentieth-century Urdu-Hindi literature. His novels and short stories dealing with the lives of everyday heroes have attained the status of classics...read more
| |  | | The 786 Cybercafe
by Bina Shah
Nobody around him knows it, but Jamal Tunio is a man with a dream. Karachi isn’t always kind to dreamers, but Jamal’s plan to open a cybercafe on Tariq Road, is one that is sure to succeed...read more
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 | | Urdu - The Final Book
by Ibn-e-Insha
Urdu - The Final Book is ostensibly a parody of certain textbooks prescribed for schools, which often contain rather banal and uninspired passages for study...read more
| |  | | The Holy Woman
by Qaisra Shahraz
A dramatic story of family intrigue, religious passions and riproaring romance...read more
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by Ralph Russell
Selections from the Urdu and Persian Ghazals of Ghalib. "My translations are an attempt to present some of his poetry in English dress so that English speakers may be able to judge his work for themselves." - Ralph Russell...read more
| |  | | Poems from Iqbal
by V.G. Kiernan
This volume contains a rendering in English of over a hundred poems chosen from the four collections of Iqbal’s poetry written in Urdu...read more
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by Aamer Hussein
Here is a collection of stories of quest and resilience, withstanding the tremendous pressure to fall in line..in Aamer’s work, one rediscovers the sensuous pleasure of reading in our day...read more
| |  | | Love Sonnets of Ghalib
by Sarfaraz Khan Niazi
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This is the first English language book wherein all of Ghalib's 235 Urdu Ghazals have been translated, transliterated & explicated. Classical art works of Sadequain have been used to illustrate Ghalib's poetry...read more
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by V.G. Kiernan
The book focuses on the poet’s four collections, which represent the best in contemporary Urdu writing. Kiernan’s versatile and learner-friendly translation clearly brings out the qualities of Urdu poetry for readers in English...read more
| |  | | Life and Work of Jalaluddin Rumi
by Afzal Iqbal
In this comprehensive and beautiful study, Afzal Iqbal captures the life and times of the great mystical poet...read more
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by Nadeem Aslam
'Maps for Lost Lovers' opens the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, community, nationality and religion...read more
| |  | | Mottled Dawn
by Khalid Hasan
Mottled Dawn is a collection of Manto's finest and most powerful pieces on the tragic Partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan in 1947...read more
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by K. C. Kanda
Nearly 1400 couplets selected from the works of over one hundred poets, both classical and modern...read more
| |  | | The Future Saviour of Pakistan?
by Colonel (R) H.U. Qureshi
The Future Saviour of Pakistan? is a brilliant work of fiction which sets the terrible events of the partition of the Indian Sub-Continent in 1947 in its full historical and political context...read more
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