Items14The creator’s order
  1. 1Kartography (2002)Kartography (2002) 6.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2002Raheen and Karim grow up close in Karachi, and Karim’s interest in maps gives him a way to think about the city that Raheen doesn’t quite share. Their friendship starts to change once they realize what their parents have left unsaid. Read it for the contrast between a place each child knows…0
  2. 2The Return of Faraz AliThe Return of Faraz AliFaraz is a police officer sent back to Lahore’s old neighborhood to bury a murder investigation. Returning also brings him near the life he was taken from as a child. The scenes with his family give the investigation its weight. The book is a good fit if you like crime fiction in which the…0
  3. 3The wish maker (2009)The wish maker (2009) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2009Zaki returns to Lahore for his cousin Samar’s wedding. Their childhood in the same household comes back through his memories, especially the things they thought adulthood would let them do. Start here for a family novel in which cousins can love one another and still want very different lives.0
  4. 4The crow eaters (1978)The crow eaters (1978) 7.5/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1978Faredoon Junglewalla moves his family to Lahore, where his business flourishes and his mother-in-law remains an inconvenience he cannot wish away. Sidhwa’s comic account of a Parsi household makes room for business ambition, family loyalty, and petty resentment in the same conversation.0
  5. 5Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (2012)Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (2012) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2012Alice works in a Karachi hospital, where the routines of nursing leave her little room to escape the expectations other people bring to her. Hanif can make a ward encounter funny and frightening in a few pages. Choose it if you like a workplace story whose sharpest observations come from someone…0
  6. 6The wandering falcon (2011)The wandering falcon (2011) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2011The boy called Tor Baz passes through communities in the borderlands of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. Some episodes pay more attention to the people he meets than to the boy himself. Look for the moments when an obligation to family or a community leaves someone with a small choice and a great…0
  7. 7Moth Smoke (2000)Moth Smoke (2000) 6.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2000Daru loses his banking job in Lahore and finds himself on the far side of money and influence from his old friend Ozi. The story moves between voices, so one person’s explanation keeps rubbing against another’s. Try it if you like an account of a downward spiral that makes you ask who has the…0
  8. 8How it happened (2012)How it happened (2012) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2012Dadi takes pride in her family’s history of arranged marriages, while her grandchildren would like more room to decide for themselves. The argument becomes funny in the way family arguments can be, with each side certain it remembers the past correctly. Choose it for the difference between what a…0
  9. 9Karachi, You're Killing Me! (2014)Karachi, You're Killing Me! (2014)Published Jan 1, 2014Ayesha works as a young reporter in Karachi. The assignments her editor hands her can put her in a catastrophe one moment and in front of a designer cupcake the next. Imtiaz uses the jump between the two to capture the absurdity of the job, along with the friendships Ayesha still has to make time…0
  10. 10Basti (1995)Basti (1995)Published Jan 1, 1995In Frances W. Pritchett’s translation from Urdu, Zakir remembers an ordinary life shared across religious lines as a very different present closes in. Notice how a conversation or an old story moves him out of the immediate scene. The book is a good choice if you like novels where memory has its…0