Description |
265 pages ; 23 cm |
Awards |
Winner of the Global Humanities Translation Prize. |
Summary |
A refreshingly playful novel, it explores modern Muslim life in the wake of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan. Zamir Ahmad Khan suffers from a mix of alienation, guilt, and postmodern anxiety that defies diagnosis. His wife abandons him to his reflections about his childhood, writing, ill-fated affairs, and his hometown, Bhopal, as he attempts to unravel the lies that brought him to his current state (while weaving new ones). |
Language |
Text in English translated from Hindi. |
Subject |
Muslims -- India -- Bhopal -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
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Bhopal (India) -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
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Muslims -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01031070
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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India -- Bhopal.
(OCoLC)fst01208057
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Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Added Author |
Grunebaum, Jason, translator.
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Stark, Ulrike, Dr. phil., translator.
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Added Title |
Dāstāna-e-lāpatā. English
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ISBN |
9780810137585 paperback alkaline paper |
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0810137585 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780810137592 electronic book |
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