Description An NYRB Classics Original Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan.
He is the editor of Fires in an Autumn Garden: Stories from Pakistan, Look at the City from.
He is a frequent contributor to the English-language press of Pakistan and the author of seven short-story collections, two essay collections, and a monograph on Intizar Husain.
Asif Farrukhi is a writer and a physician trained in public health.
Her books include Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics, The Romance Tradition in Urdu: Adventures from the Dastan of Amir Hamzah, and (with Khaliq Ahmad Khaliq) Urdu Meter: A Practical Handbook.
Pritchett has taught South Asian literature at Columbia University since 1982.
Frances W.
Collections of Husain\'s celebrated short stories have appeared in English under the titles Leaves, The Seventh Door, A Chronicle of the Peacocks, and An Unwritten Epic.
Besides Basti, he was the author of two other novels, Naya Gar (The New House), which paints a picture of Pakistan during the ten-year dictatorship of the Islamic fundamentalist General Zia-ul-Haq, and Agay Sumandar Hai (Beyond Is the Sea), which juxtaposes the spiraling urban violence of contemporary Karachi with a vision of the lost Islamic realm of al-Andalus.
Born in Dibai, Bulandshahr, in British-administered India, he migrated to Pakistan in 1947 and lived in Lahore.
About the Author Intizar Husain (1925-2016) was a journalist, short-story writer, and novelist, widely considered one of the most significant fiction writers in Urdu.
Whether hunkered down with family or furtively meeting to exchange news with friends in caf s, Zakir is alone in a country lost to the politics of loneliness.
Cities burn.
Slogans echo.
Crowds gather.
Then Zakir, the hero, wakes to the modern world.
Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain\'s extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and young, man and woman, Muslim and Hindu.
Description An NYRB Classics Original Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan
