Shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012.
In an old ruined city, emptied of most of its inhabitants, Ustad Ramzi, a famous wrestler past his prime, and Gohar Jan, a well-known courtesan whose kotha once attracted the wealthy and the eminent, contemplate the former splendour of their lives and the ruthless currents of time and history that have swept them into oblivion.
This book is out of print and will no longer be available in Aleph editions.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi is the author of Between Clay and Dust (finalist, Man Asia Literary Prize 2012), The Story of a Widow (finalist, DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, 2008; longlisted for IMPAC/Dublin Literary Prize) and other novels. He is the translator, among other works, of the epic, The Adventures of Amir Hamza (Modern Library Classic) and Hoshruba. Farooqi is the editor of the Online Urdu Thesaurus and founder of the Storykit Program. He is a Harvard University Fellow.
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