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Beyond The Cold Horizon: The Watchmaker's Road - A Novel

Beyond The Cold Horizon: The Watchmaker's Road - A Novel

Ali, Khurram

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ISBN10: 8269478717
ISBN13: 9788269478716
Publisher: Khurram Ali Books
Published: Aug 31 2026
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Some journeys don't appear on any map.

This is one of them.

In the autumn of 1972, Haris Ahmad is twenty-three years old. He repairs watches in a small shop in Gujrat, Pakistan. His country has just been torn in half. His father's hands are shaking. And his mother's gold bangles-the only wealth she has-are about to become his ticket out.

He leaves with a pair of shoes that hold his life savings, a copy of the Quran wrapped in cloth, and a promise he isn't sure he can keep.

What follows is a journey that will take him across seven countries and decades of his life-from the frozen mountains of Iran to the tent camps of Oslo, from a fish factory where his hands crack and bleed to a corner grocery store he builds with a man who becomes his brother.

He marries a woman he once knew as a child. He has two sons. And then he makes the kind of choice that parents make when they are desperate and tired and trying to do the right thing: he sends them back to Pakistan to be raised by their grandmother.

Beyond the Cold Horizon is the story of that choice-and of the long, slow work of earning back the trust of the people you love. It is a novel about leaving and returning, about the weight of the lives we leave behind, and about what it means to build a home in a place you never expected to call home.

It is a story about the road that does not appear on any map. And the journey that never truly ends.

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