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Basti by Intizar Husain

Basti

Intizar Husain with Frances W. Prichett (Translator), Asif Farrukhi (Contributor)

294 pages first pub 1979 (view editions) user-added

fiction historical challenging reflective slow-paced
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Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain’s extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and young, man and woma...

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