The Inside City

✍ Scribed by Anita Mir

• Book ID: 111304965
• Publisher: Unbound
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 187 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781789650099

✦ Synopsis

As India hurtles towards Partition, in Lahore's ancient inside city, Amrau Dar is not thinking about politics. She is waiting for a prediction about her son, Awais, to come true. Awais discovers not a secret garden but a secret city and his beloved sister, Maryam, discovers the world of maths. Fearing that the prediction has gone wrong, Amrau takes a series of decisions that will change all their lives.

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**'**The Inside City is a bold and vivid evocation of times and places on the fringes of our memories; a multi-patterned screen that reveals, through the secrets, mysteries, loves and tragedies of a multitude of characters, the inner life of a nation. A compelling and hugely entertaining debut.' – Aamer Hussein, author of Another Gulmohar Tree

'Brimming with compassion' – Mohammed Hanif, author of A Case of Exploding Mangoes