Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1590175824
ISBN-13
9781590175828
Edition
Main
Publisher
New York Review Books
Imprint
NYRB Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 26th, 2012
Print length
258 Pages
Weight
260 grams
Dimensions
19.80 x 17.80 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain’s extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and young, man and woman, Muslim and Hindu. Then Zakir, the hero, wakes to the modern world. Crowds gather. Slogans echo. Cities burn. Whether hunkered down with family or furtively meeting to exchange news with friends in cafés, Zakir is alone in a country lost to the politics of loneliness.
Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain’s extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and young, man and woman, Muslim and Hindu. Then Zakir, the hero, wakes to the modern world. Crowds gather. Slogans echo. Cities burn. Whether hunkered down with family or furtively meeting to exchange news with friends in cafés, Zakir is alone in a country lost to the politics of loneliness.
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