Blue Direction

Acclaimed both in Pakistan and in Britain, Aamer Husseins first collection of stories, Mirror to the Sun, was chosen by Shena Mackay as one of her Books of the Year 1993. In his long awaited second collectionwhich includes the experimental sequence Skieshe continues and deepens his oblique, subversive portrayal of the preoccupations of our time: betrayal, bereaving, exile, belonging and the writers role. In The Blue Direction a teenaged boys life uncannily begins to resemble the role he plays in a school operetta in The Lost Cantos of the Silken Tiger a poet revenges herself on her faithless lover by turning their romance into a biblical legend and in This Other Salt a writer torn between two loves, looks for his lost worlds in the gap between memory, mourning and desire. Combining satire, legend, poetry, history and memoir, the linked stories of The Blue Direction reveal an author of uncommon talent at the height of his craft. Extraordinarily controlled, written in a tactile, musical prose, with a very individual sense of beauty. A striking and original contribution to the literature that has emerged in the English language from the subcontinent. Amit Chaudhari Each story, remarkable in both expansiveness and precision, sings with heartbreak, intelligence and elegy. A stunning collection. Kamila Shamsie Acclaimed both in Pakistan and in Britain, Aamer Husseins first collection of stories, Mirror to the Sun, was chosen by Shena Mackay as one of her Books of the Year 1993. In his long awaited second collectionwhich includes the experimental sequence Skieshe continues and deepens his oblique, subversive portrayal of the preoccupations of our time: betrayal, bereaving, exile, belonging and the writers role. In The Blue Direction a teenaged boys life uncannily begins to resemble the role he plays in a school operetta in The Lost Cantos of the Silken Tiger a poet revenges herself on her faithless lover by... Read More

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