July Sun - Stories

“Ahmad’s compassion, her deep care for the psychological and emotional nuances of her characters, never wavers.” – In a searing collection by the award-winning author of In these seven powerful stories, Aamina Ahmad finds a world of pathos in the narrowest circumstances, from the fugitive intimacies of villages where nothing escapes notice to the crevices where city dwellers seek refuge from urban striving and indifference. Capturing the plight of ordinary people caught between love and duty, freedom and social constraint--a man who witnesses an illicit moment of tenderness, a police officer who must choose whether to follow the laws of God or of man, a woman who takes matters into her own hands in the face of an unexpected pregnancy--

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Aamina Ahmad, Ahmad Aamina
• Editore: Riverhead
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2026
• EAN: 9798217046126
• ISBN: 9798217046126
• Pagine: 240
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, FICTION / World Literature / Pakistan, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Literature of Pakistan