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Another Gulmohar Tree
Aamer Hussein
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Description for Another Gulmohar Tree
Paperback. Offers an account of a cross-cultural marriage. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 134 x 9. Weight in Grams: 132.
Usman is visiting post-war London from Pakistan when he meets a young aspiring artist called Lydia who has, like himself, come out of an unhappy marriage. Just as the lonely strangers' friendship begins to blossom into something deeper Usman has to return to Karachi, leaving Lydia behind. Two years later, Lydia impulsively abandons her life in London and boards a ship to Karachi, where the two are married. But as the years flit by Usman feels distanced from his life and realises that he hasn't noticed the buds of the gulmohar tree unfurl. A beautiful account of a marriage that ... Read more
Usman is visiting post-war London from Pakistan when he meets a young aspiring artist called Lydia who has, like himself, come out of an unhappy marriage. Just as the lonely strangers' friendship begins to blossom into something deeper Usman has to return to Karachi, leaving Lydia behind. Two years later, Lydia impulsively abandons her life in London and boards a ship to Karachi, where the two are married. But as the years flit by Usman feels distanced from his life and realises that he hasn't noticed the buds of the gulmohar tree unfurl. A beautiful account of a marriage that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Saqi Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
132g
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846590566
SKU
V9781846590566
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Ref
99-15
About Aamer Hussein
Aamer Hussein was born in Karachi in 1955 and moved to London in the early 1970s. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and reviews regularly for the Independent and the TLS. Aamer has published four collections of short stories and a novella, Another Gulmohar Tree, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Europe and South Asia 2010.
Reviews for Another Gulmohar Tree
'A lovely, strange and very moving novel. The colours and shape develop as you read while the couple's mutual understanding moves forward and upward over the years like two branches of blossom meeting at the top of the tree.' Ruth Padel 'In his splendid, dreamy Another Gulmohar Tree, Hussein gives us an indelible sense of two worlds - Karachi ... Read more