Moth smoke


Title	Moth smoke
Author	Hamid, Mohsin
Publication	Granta
Size	244p
Language	ENG
ISBN	9781862073142
Topics	English fiction--Love English fiction--Political English fiction--Business Pakistan--Fiction
Notes	tells the story of Darashikoh Shezad, a banker in Lahore, Pakistan, who loses his job, falls in love with his best friend's wife, and plunges into a life of drugs and crime. It uses the historical trial of the liberal Mughal prince Dara Shikoh by his brother Aurangzeb as an allegory for the state of Pakistan at the time of the 1998 nuclear tests.

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