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THE RETURN OF FARAZ ALI
Sent back to his birthplace Lahore's notorious red-light district to hush up the murder of a child prostitute, a man finds himself in an unexpected reckoning with his past.
Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, Lahore's infamous walled inner city, where women still pass down the profession of courtesan to their daughters. But he still remembers the day he was abducted from the home he shared with his mother and sister there, at the direction of his powerful father, who wanted to give him a chance at a respectable life. Now Wajid, once more dictating his fate from afar, has sent Faraz back to Lahore, installing him as head of the Mohalla police station and charging him with a mission: to cover up the violent death of a young kanjari.
It should be a simple assignment to carry out in a marginalized community, but for the first time in his career, Faraz finds himself unable to follow orders. As the city assails him with a jumble of memories, he cannot stop asking questions or chasing down the walled city's labyrinthine alleyways for the secretshis family's and his ownthat risk shattering his precariously constructed existence.
Profoundly intimate and propulsive, The Return of Faraz Ali is a spellbindingly assured first novel that poses a timeless question: Whom do we choose to protect, and at what price?
Aamina Ahmad grew up in London and visited Pakistan often with her father, an airline pilot. A Stegner Fellow, she holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a Rona Jaffe Award. Her short fiction has appeared in One Story, The Southern Review, and other journals. She teaches writing at San Jose State.
It should be a simple assignment to carry out in a marginalized community, but for the first time in his career, Faraz finds himself unable to follow orders. As the city assails him with a jumble of memories, he cannot stop asking questions or chasing down the walled city's labyrinthine alleyways for the secretshis family's and his ownthat risk shattering his precariously constructed existence.
Profoundly intimate and propulsive, The Return of Faraz Ali is a spellbindingly assured first novel that poses a timeless question: Whom do we choose to protect, and at what price?
Aamina Ahmad grew up in London and visited Pakistan often with her father, an airline pilot. A Stegner Fellow, she holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a Rona Jaffe Award. Her short fiction has appeared in One Story, The Southern Review, and other journals. She teaches writing at San Jose State.
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Published 2022-04-01 by Riverhead |