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Grieving for Pigeons, Revised Edition
Twelve Stories of Lahore
Zubair Ahmad (Author), Anne Murphy (Translated by)
9781771994316
Paperback / softback, published 29 February 2024
128 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg
In this poignant and meditative collection of short stories, Zubair Ahmad captures the lives and experiences of the people of the Punjab, a region divided between India and Pakistan. In an intimate narrative style, Ahmad writes a world that hovers between memory and imagination, home and abroad. The narrator follows the pull of his subconscious, shifting between past and present, recalling different eras of Lahore's neighbourhoods and the communities. These stories evoke the complex realities of post-colonial Pakistani Punjab. The contradictions and betrayals of this region's history reverberate through the stories, evident in the characters, their circumstances, and sometimes their erasure. Skillfully translated from Punjabi by Anne Murphy, this collection is an essential contribution to the wider recognition of the Punjabi language and its literature.
Introduction / Anne Murphy Waliullah Is Lost Bajwa Has Nothing More to Say Now Dead Man's Float Pigeons, Ledges, and Streets The Beak of the Green Parrot, Submerged in the River He Has Left, and Won't Be Back Sweater Unstory The Estranged City The Silence of Saints Half Maghar Moon The Wall of Water