The Inside City
by Anita Mir
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Pub Date Mar 21 2019 | Archive Date Jun 30 2019
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Description
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.
Advance Praise
'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
'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
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781789650082 |
| PRICE | £10.99 (GBP) |
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Bryn H, Reviewer
Ambitious and unusual. Although I was on occasion confused -- with a writing style that does not make concessions -- I found this easy to devour.
Political events -- Gandhi, Amritsar, partition -- are the backdrop for a story more about society perhaps, as seen in one family and the swirl of people around it. A mother who eats her young. Awais, who is too black, dreamy mapper of the Inside City of Lahore, avoids getting entirely eaten and helps his sister Maryam, a maths genius (I'd like to think she was named for Maryam Mirzakhani, 1977-2017, first woman to win the Fields Medal in mathematics). The plot does not indulge us with outcomes we'd desire, but at risk of a spoiler, I was highly glad that there IS an escape at the end.
Fascinating historical fiction.
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