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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Village and the City

Village and the City

Qazi, Naveed

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798272617835
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 2 2025
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Khalid Afroz grows up in a quiet village in Pulwama and lives a quintessential rural life. He drinks from mountain streams, chases cricket balls across wild fields and watches neighbours barter pencils, milk and cheese to make ends meet. After securing a position in the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, he becomes increasingly restless about moving to Srinagar. What does one do when the soil that raised him feels too small, yet becomes too sacred to abandon?

His family's shift from rice paddies to apple orchards further deepens this divide. On their father's advice, his younger brother Pervez holds firmly to farming and its local prestige, while Khalid broadens his horizons in search of a faster paced life and greater opportunities. Can ambition be pursued without abandoning tradition?

Through the intimate struggles of Afroz family, the story becomes a broader meditation on belonging and departure, relationships and reality, memory and modernity, home and exile. Will Khalid reconcile with his rural roots, or will destiny compel him to divide his life between his ancestral village and his new home in Srinagar, leaving him torn between the two?

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