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The Cloud Messenger
Aamer Hussein
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Description for The Cloud Messenger
Paperback. Interwoven with the poetry of love, loss and longing, The Cloud Messenger is a study of the search for a home in the world and of the redeeming power of memory and unconditional love. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208.
In his early teens, Mehran moves from Karachi, the rainless place of his childhood to London, the rainy city his father has always loved. At the age of twenty-three, he leaves his job in a bank to return to university, where he meets the charismatic Riccarda - nearly ten years older than him, vivacious and enigmatic. Their relationship, which shades from friendship into love, will last a lifetime. In his thirties, when life doesn't quite go according to plan, Mehran becomes involved with Marvi, passionate, displaced and damaged, and has to choose between the demands of a relationship and the ... Read more
In his early teens, Mehran moves from Karachi, the rainless place of his childhood to London, the rainy city his father has always loved. At the age of twenty-three, he leaves his job in a bank to return to university, where he meets the charismatic Riccarda - nearly ten years older than him, vivacious and enigmatic. Their relationship, which shades from friendship into love, will last a lifetime. In his thirties, when life doesn't quite go according to plan, Mehran becomes involved with Marvi, passionate, displaced and damaged, and has to choose between the demands of a relationship and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Telegram Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
174
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
208g
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846590894
SKU
V9781846590894
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About Aamer Hussein
Aamer Hussein was born in Karachi in 1955 and moved to London in his teens. He is the author of Insomnia, and the editor of Kahani. He reviews regularly for The Independent, lectures at the University of Southampton and the Institute of English Studies, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His novel Another Gulmohar Tree was ... Read more
Reviews for The Cloud Messenger
Endorsements: 'A thing of beauty - You must read it' Nadeem Aslam 'Elegantly melancholy, yet sharp-eyed too. I was reminded simultaneously of the early 19th-century French
and of poetic worlds I didn't know at all .A shower of pleasures' Julia O'Faolain 'We are lucky to have Hussein among us, telling stories as few can, with his particular mixture of ... Read more
and of poetic worlds I didn't know at all .A shower of pleasures' Julia O'Faolain 'We are lucky to have Hussein among us, telling stories as few can, with his particular mixture of ... Read more