Author: Naiyer Masud
Publisher: Katha
ISBN: 9788185586823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
From the magic realm of a glass wharf to the sorrows of a community of wastelanders. From the visceral immediacy of filial bonds to memories that haunt, Naiyer Masud s fictional world is an experience. The Essence of Camphor, the first ever English translation of Masud s work, is evidently an example of Masud s unique and original style that is unparalleled.
The Essence of Camphor
Author: Naiyer Masud
Publisher: Katha
ISBN: 9788185586823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
From the magic realm of a glass wharf to the sorrows of a community of wastelanders. From the visceral immediacy of filial bonds to memories that haunt, Naiyer Masud s fictional world is an experience. The Essence of Camphor, the first ever English translation of Masud s work, is evidently an example of Masud s unique and original style that is unparalleled.
Publisher: Katha
ISBN: 9788185586823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
From the magic realm of a glass wharf to the sorrows of a community of wastelanders. From the visceral immediacy of filial bonds to memories that haunt, Naiyer Masud s fictional world is an experience. The Essence of Camphor, the first ever English translation of Masud s work, is evidently an example of Masud s unique and original style that is unparalleled.
Snake Catcher
Author: Naiyer Masud
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780143099710
Category : Urdu fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Even Shorn Of Its Immense Humanity, Masud'S Lyricism Would Dazzle, For He Is, Without Doubt, A Poet'S Storyteller' -Agha Shahid Ali Readers And Critics Have Compared Masud To Kafka, Borges And Murakami. But It Is Best To Speak Of His Style As Pure Masud, For No Other Writer Has Rendered A Fictional World Quite Like That Of This Master Storyteller. His Prose Is Spare And Seductive And His Stories Have A Shimmering, Elusive Quality. Although Individually Perfectly Formed And Complete, Yet Each Story Appears To Have No Beginning Or End, Drawing The Reader Into A Seamless Narrative Structure. The Coming Of Age Of A Young Boy Who Looks For Domains Of Fear And Desire In The Houses He Inspects, A Man'S Life Shaped By His Father'S Dreams And His Mother'S Devotion, A Walk Down Memory Lane To Fulfil A Mother'S Dying Wish, A Beautiful Girl With Deformed Feet The Reader Begins To Inhabit A World Where Illusions Are As Stark As Day, And Experience Masud'S Writing In A Metaphysical, Almost Sufi-Like, Sense.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780143099710
Category : Urdu fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Even Shorn Of Its Immense Humanity, Masud'S Lyricism Would Dazzle, For He Is, Without Doubt, A Poet'S Storyteller' -Agha Shahid Ali Readers And Critics Have Compared Masud To Kafka, Borges And Murakami. But It Is Best To Speak Of His Style As Pure Masud, For No Other Writer Has Rendered A Fictional World Quite Like That Of This Master Storyteller. His Prose Is Spare And Seductive And His Stories Have A Shimmering, Elusive Quality. Although Individually Perfectly Formed And Complete, Yet Each Story Appears To Have No Beginning Or End, Drawing The Reader Into A Seamless Narrative Structure. The Coming Of Age Of A Young Boy Who Looks For Domains Of Fear And Desire In The Houses He Inspects, A Man'S Life Shaped By His Father'S Dreams And His Mother'S Devotion, A Walk Down Memory Lane To Fulfil A Mother'S Dying Wish, A Beautiful Girl With Deformed Feet The Reader Begins To Inhabit A World Where Illusions Are As Stark As Day, And Experience Masud'S Writing In A Metaphysical, Almost Sufi-Like, Sense.
Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts ... Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged, by Arnold J. Cooley and J. C. Brough
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
Collected Stories
Author: Naiyer Masud
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9385890174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 779
Book Description
A malfunctioning weathervane forces the wind to realign itself. A collector travels all over the world tracking down tools used in crimes against corpses. A gardener frets over the consequences of stealing the Navab of Lucknow’s prized myna. Minutiae and mystery form the warp and weft of Naiyer Masud’s densely woven, enchantingly hypnotic stories, combining precisely delineated characters and objects with accounts of inexplicable phenomena and the arcane arts. Compiled and introduced by the acclaimed Urdu scholar Muhammad Umar Memon, this edition collects all thirty-five of Masud’s stories for the first time, establishing him as one of the most original voices to emerge in world literature in the past few decades.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9385890174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 779
Book Description
A malfunctioning weathervane forces the wind to realign itself. A collector travels all over the world tracking down tools used in crimes against corpses. A gardener frets over the consequences of stealing the Navab of Lucknow’s prized myna. Minutiae and mystery form the warp and weft of Naiyer Masud’s densely woven, enchantingly hypnotic stories, combining precisely delineated characters and objects with accounts of inexplicable phenomena and the arcane arts. Compiled and introduced by the acclaimed Urdu scholar Muhammad Umar Memon, this edition collects all thirty-five of Masud’s stories for the first time, establishing him as one of the most original voices to emerge in world literature in the past few decades.
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
Author: Meera Syal
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312278564
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
An Indian "Waiting to Exhale", this hilarious and moving new novel by the award-winning author of "Anita and Me" is the indelible portrait of a group of Indian women living in London and what happens when one of them makes a documentary starring the other two.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312278564
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
An Indian "Waiting to Exhale", this hilarious and moving new novel by the award-winning author of "Anita and Me" is the indelible portrait of a group of Indian women living in London and what happens when one of them makes a documentary starring the other two.
Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes
Author: William Brisbane Dick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes
Author: William Dick
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382156350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382156350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
A Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts, and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, and Trades, Including Medicine, Pharmacy, and Domestic Economy
Author: Arnold James Cooley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1372
Book Description
The Chemist
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades, Including Medicine, Pharmacy, and Domestic Economy
Author: Arnold James Cooley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Formulas, recipes, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Formulas, recipes, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1410
Book Description