Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting is a tender and extravagant sketch of apocalypse
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Chughtai’s last novel is suffused with intense grief for the martyrs of Karbala, but its sharp political allegory clearly skewers the Emergency
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Movingly elegiac about a vanishing cosmopolitan Lucknow, Hyder’s early work deals with Partition as background hubbub, not as lurid hyper-reality.
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