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Taymour Soomro was born in 1979 in Lahore, Pakistan. He read law at Cambridge University and Stanford Law School. He has worked as a corporate solicitor in New York and Milan, a law lecturer at a university in Karachi, an agricultural estate manager in rural Pakistan and a publicist for a luxury fashion brand in London. Soomro has an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia and received the Curtis Brown Prize in 2016. He has written extensively for the Pakistani news media. His first published piece of creative writing, ''Philosophy of the Foot'', appeared in The New Yorker in January 2019. He has fiction forthcoming in Ninth Letter and The Southern Review . He lives in London.>

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A beautiful novel on the desire to leave and the hope to remain, the need to find oneself among one's people and away from them HISHAM MATAR, author of The Return

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• Authors: Taymour Soomro
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.07.2022
• EAN: 9781787303058
• ISBN: 978-1-78730-305-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, Pakistan, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Of specific Gay interest, Relating to gay people, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay