I met the author of this book before I ever read it. In fact he very adroitly steered a session on The Aleph Review at the Lahore Literary Festival, with wit and knowledge. Those are the two mainstays of his novel as well, which has now been translated into Urdu. The novel moves through the centuries from 2084 BCE Mohenjodaro, where a young man takes to a solitary existence in the then wooded environs of the ancient city. He sees imminent disaster that he thinks will destroy the city. But the moment the reader settles herself in this world, she…
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