Thinner than Skin is a riveting novel about identity and belonging. It’s also a love story: between a young Pakistani man trying to make his way as photographer in America, and the daughter of a Pakistani father and German mother brought up in the US, who wants to return to a country she’s never seen. Together they make the trip to Pakistan, where a chance meeting with a young nomad changes their lives, and the lives of those around them, forever. The novel is also a love letter to the wilds of Northern Pakistan, to glaciers, to the old Silk Road, and to the nomadic life of the indigenous people in the Northern territories, where China encroaches and Pakistanis, Uzbeks, Russians, Chinese, and Afghans all come together to trade.

His belief systems challenged by his American education, Pakistani student Daanish falls in love with silk farmer's daughter Dia, whose permissive and modern upbringing compromises the traditional and repressive practices of both of their families.

a world-class tale of love and deceit, rivalry and destiny in a truly masterful and thoroughly involving novel from the Lahore-based writer Uzma Aslam Khan 'Daanish thought of the gazelle-eyed girl in the blue dupatta. If she returned, he wanted to be the first to talk to her. He wanted to tell her he'd followed her advice and found out what she'd left. He wanted also to look more closely at that smooth, caramel face with the gracefully tapering chin. But he'd not see her again. Did he even remember her correctly?' Daanish will remember her, the girl Dia. She is his future and his past. They come together by chance, he from far away over the ocean, from Amreeka, where there are plenty of rules but few restrictions. She is local, but of the new breed of women -- unrestricted, spirited and resourceful, just like her mother, the entrepreneur, the silk farmer. And it is a handful of silkworms, fattened on mulberry leaves, slipped inside a friend's dupatta, cocoons tickling skin, that, in rupturing the peace and plans of a household, make the space -- noisy like the sea in a shell - in which Dia and Daanish can create something anew, all over again. Meanwhile, all around them new ways d

Set in 1970s and '80s Pakistan, a young math whiz called Noman writes pseudoscience for his father's cohort of religious extremists while secretly gravitating toward a diehard evolutionist and his adventurous granddaughter, Amal. Amal's blind younger sister, Mehwish, tries to decipher a world she cannot see but understands better than most.

Scientist Amal and her blind sister Mehwish, their heretical grandfather Zahoor, and Noman, the young man who changes all their livesthese are the four shifting chambers who make the heart of The Geometry of God, the new novel from lauded Pakistani writer Uzma Aslam Khan. The Geometry of God follows these characters as their lives unfold against the backdrop of General Zias Pakistan, where religious fundamentalists and the mujaheddin (funded by gem sales and the Americans) gather power, and scientists and poets come under threat. This is a book to be savored, as the sisters show us: digging as Amal does toward the novels deepest questions about love and knowledge and faith, moving as Mehwish does to the rhythms of an abundant and original language.

The sweet taste of the wine comes from the muscadelle grape, and the greyish mould that it attracts ý The mould is lovingly called pourriture noble, noble rot. It is the careless abandon of a wine-satiated afternoon that first brings together the imperious Mrs Masood and the humble carpenter's wife, Malika. As she observes the wealthy older woman whose family is responsible for all her troubles, a plan takes shape in Malika's mindýa plan to recover the money Mrs Masood owes her husband, and to rescue her son from slow death in Mr Masoodýs carpet factory in Karachi. Unknown to both women, the moment marks the beginning of a relationship that is to change their lives for ever. Into the complex web of Malika's plans are drawn Mr Saeed who dwells in his study with his ruby-studded armadillo; the Pathan with the sun-dappled eyes; Momin of the hennaed hands with his love for fish and birds; and Saima with her unpredictable affections and fabulous stories. Vividly narrated and full of funny yet complex dilemmas, this is a novel about the sweetness of life and about how we inexorably drive ourselves to our own doom. It marks the debut of a gifted storyteller from Pakistan.

The Paleantologist Zahoor Is Trying To Do His Research While General Zia Is Launching A Campaign To Islamise Knowledge. Science Is Being Rewritten And Called Islamic Science. The Teaching Of Evolution Is Banned. Nothing Is Natural Or Accidental; Everything Is Revealed And Ordained. On A Fossil Dig In The Salt Range Of The Punjab, An Area That Once Lay Beneath The Tethys Sea, Zahoor S Granddaughter, Amal, Finds Proof Of The Dog-Whale . No One Knows It Yet But She Has Found Pakicetus, The Oldest Known Primitive Whale. Back At Home Bad News Awaits. Amal S Baby Sister Mehwish Has Become Blind And Amal Will Have To Stay Home To Raise Her. Mehwish S World Is Both Magical And Terrifying. Through Amal She Learns To Read A Seeing Person S Alphabet. She Can Also See Amal S Drawings Of Primitive Whales. Her Grandfather Teaches Her Illegal English Love Poems.

Nomi och Zee tillhör De Infödda – deras far dömdes en gång i tiden till att sitta av sitt fängelsestraff på de isolerade Andamanöarna, och när fängelsetiden är över måste han bli kvar med sin familj och odla upp marken åt britterna. Öarna är en ogästvänlig plats trots sin surrealistiska skönhet, trots att de kallats ett fångarnas paradis . När andra världskriget bryter ut avfyras snart det första skottet i Nomis by, och Zee tvingas fly. Kvar blir Nomi, som försöker förhandla med ödet och rädda sin älskade familj. Men när makten över öarna skiftar fram och tillbaka mellan britterna och japanerna är bara en sak säker: ingen är på Nomis och Zees sida. Den fantastiska sanna historien om Nomi Ali är en tät och lyrisk iscensättning av ett glömt kapitel i historien, men också en drabbande historia om maktlöshet, mod och mirakel, och om kampen för att upprätthålla sin värdighet och medmänsklighet även under de svåraste förhållanden. Det här är en berättelse du inte vill missa! The Tribune UZMA ASLAM KHAN är född och uppvuxen i Pakistan, men bor nu i USA. Hon fick sitt genombrott med den hyllade Trådarna i väven (2004). Den fantastiska sanna historien om Nomi Ali är hennes femte roman.