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Misri House
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 18 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if a house could remember every life that passed through it?
In Misri House, a family home becomes far more than brick, timber, and stone. It breathes, listens, keeps secrets, and places its trust in children. Its Broadway staircase creaks according to the footsteps it carries. Its intricate Khutub Band ceilings speak a language without words. Its mysterious Star Balm roof holds a colour no one can quite name.
Within its walls, childhood imagination transforms ordinary objects into instruments of wonder. A Kiwi shoe-polish tin becomes a stethoscope. An imaginary illness demands urgent treatment. Even the milkman's lizard becomes the patient in a most unusual operation. Warm, playful, and told with gentle humour, these early adventures capture the innocence and absurdity of family life.
But Misri House remembers more than laughter.
When the children discover an old letter, a hidden diary, a court order, and the unsettling presence of a man behind the wall, the house begins to reveal the history it has guarded for decades. Two silent clocks, stopped since 1947, suddenly begin to tick again. Familiar rooms become chambers of mystery, and small household objects emerge as witnesses to events larger than any one family.
A stained white shirt becomes a flag of survival. Faded stones in the garden preserve a father's effort to bring order to chaos. A childhood toy becomes a relic of a vanished world.
Moving seamlessly from comedy to mystery and finally to elegy, Misri House is a haunting story of childhood, family, memory, loss, and exile. When the house itself is threatened, the reader does not simply fear the destruction of a building, but the disappearance of a living presence that has carried generations within it.
Tender, imaginative, and deeply moving, Misri House asks what remains when a home is lost-and whether the places that shaped us ever truly leave us.
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