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Basti

By Intizar Husain

Basti

By Intizar Husain

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An NYRB Classics Original Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. 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. Then Zakir, the hero, wakes to the modern world. Crowds gather. Slogans echo. Cities burn. Whether hunkered down with family or furtively meeting to exchange news with friends in cafés, Zakir is alone in a country lost to the politics of loneliness.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
258
Release Date:
2012-12-26
Publication Date:
2012-12-26
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1590175824
ISBN13:
9781590175828
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
253 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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