Things she could never have : stories /
These understated, beautiful and disturbing stories depict the lives of Pakistanis, privileged or poor, gay or straight, men or women, painting the life of a nation deeply troubled. "Clean" takes us into the mind of an abused maidservant's boy who gets seduced into the role of a suici...
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| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
Mawenzi House,
[2017]
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| Summary: | These understated, beautiful and disturbing stories depict the lives of Pakistanis, privileged or poor, gay or straight, men or women, painting the life of a nation deeply troubled. "Clean" takes us into the mind of an abused maidservant's boy who gets seduced into the role of a suicide bomber. In "Pray," a group of privileged young men and women, some of them home from abroad, gallivant through the streets of Karachi, until two of them go to a mosque and meet a terrible fate. "Things She Could Never Have" is a love story about two young trans women living in Karachi. "Home" follows one of them to her place of birth in a small village in the Punjab. |
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| Physical Description: | 121 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781988449142 1988449146 |