Set in 1938, against the backdrop of Gandhi’s rise to power, Water follows the life of eight-year-old Chuyia, abandoned at a widow’s ashram after the death of her elderly husband. There, she must live in penitence until her death. Unwilling to accept her fate, she becomes a catalyst for change in th..
Ice Candy Man is a heartbreaking story about the Partition of India and the 1947 upheaval that left countless people homeless, hurt and/or dead. This period of time has been documented from various viewpoints, but Sidhwa’s novel approaches the subject from the point-of-view of a little girl who live..
Anne Elliot is intelligent and fairly attractive. She is 27 and unmarried. She was once engaged to Frederick Wentworth, a naval officer without fortune, but the engagement was broken when friends and family persuaded her to reject him on account of his situation. It was seven years ago. Anne could n..
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Abdullah..
This best-selling Norton
Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For
the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several
modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including
accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explana..
A Thousand Splendid Suns
is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of
Afghanistan's last thirty years - from the Soviet invasion to the reign
of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding - that puts the violence,
fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It i..
When Daru Shezad is fired from his banking job in Lahore, he begins a decline that plummets the length of this sharply drawn, subversive tale. Before long, he can't pay his bills, and he loses his toehold among Pakistan's cell-phone-toting elite. Daru descends into drugs and dissolution, and, for go..
The Great Gatsby, F.
Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his
career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by
generations of readers. The story is of the fabulously wealthy Jay
Gatsby and his new love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavi..
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that reco..
Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four
is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory
becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist
George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic
world and one poor..
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the pos..
سلطان اور خان عثمانی ترکوں کا پہلا حکمران تھا جس نے نہ صرف پورے اناطولیہ میں ترکوں کی حکومت قائم کی بلکہ بڑے بڑے یور پی سور ماؤں کو اپنے سامنے زیر کیا وہ حقیقی معنوں میں عثمانی سلطنت کا بانی قرار دیا جا تا ہے- دور دراز کی سر زمینوں کے ترک اس کی فتوحات کا سن کر اس کے لشکر میں شامل ہونا ف..
Armed only with the
invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for
themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family—their lonely,
lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by
day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her
v..
چھوٹے سے ایک جزیرے میں مٹی کے برتن بنانے والا خیر الدین باربروسہ اپنی محنت ، جفاکشی ، جرات مندی، اور سرفروشی سے ترکی کا امیر البحر بن گیا۔
اس نے اسپین ، اٹلی وینس، مالٹا اور دیگر کئی ممالک کے بحری بیڑوں اور جہازوں کو سمندر کے اندر تباہ و برباد کر دیا۔ اپنی جراتمندی سے اس نے بحیرہ روم کو ایک ..
Khak aur Khoon is a historical novel by Naseem Hijazi that describes the sacrifices of Muslims of South Asia during the time of independence in 1947.
When Muslims of different regions were trying to get to Pakistan,
many groups of Hindus would to attack them during their journeys to
snatch thei..