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Grieving for Pigeons, Revised Edition: Twelve Stories of Lahore

Grieving for Pigeons, Revised Edition: Twelve Stories of Lahore

Ahmad, Zubair
Murphy, Anne

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Series: Mingling Voices

General Fiction

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ISBN10: 1771994312
ISBN13: 9781771994316
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Published: Jan 9 2025
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
An English translation of a collection of short stories that represents everyday life in the Punjab.

In this poignant and meditative collection of short stories, Zubair Ahmad captures the lives and experiences of the people of the Punjab, a region divided between India and Pakistan. In an intimate narrative style, Ahmad writes a world that hovers between memory and imagination, home and abroad. The narrator follows the pull of his subconscious, shifting between past and present, recalling different eras of Lahore's neighborhoods and communities. These stories evoke the complex realities of post-colonial Pakistani Punjab. The contradictions and betrayals of this region's history reverberate through the stories, evident in the characters, their circumstances, and sometimes their erasure. Skillfully translated from Punjabi by Anne Murphy, this collection is an essential contribution to the wider recognition of the Punjabi language and its literature.

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