Basti
Author: Husain, Intizar
ISBN: 9781590175828
Publisher: NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS
Year First Published: 2012
Pages: 258
Dimensions: 205mm x 132mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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 cafes, Zakir is alone in a country lost to the politics of loneliness.
ISBN: 9781590175828
Publisher: NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS
Year First Published: 2012
Pages: 258
Dimensions: 205mm x 132mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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 cafes, Zakir is alone in a country lost to the politics of loneliness.
