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Memoirs of an Anonymous Phone Sex Worker
Anonymous
‘Even though Madame Katherine became dangerous given a few ice cubes and I now knew 101 ways to delight using rubber bands, the novelty of my job didn’t take long to wear off.’
Bradistan
Zaiba Malik
‘I knew I was Pakistani long before I knew I was English, just as I knew I was Muslim long before I knew I was British.’
Six Snapshots of Partition
John Siddique
‘He hands me my inheritance: a box of conversations. Fragments of memory, blank spaces, things which there are no words for.’
Where to Begin
Nadeem Aslam
‘Pages five, six and seven make her into a Pakistani, but for the first four pages she is nothing but a human being.’
Road to Chitral
Azhar Abidi
‘I wonder sometimes when this cycle of violence began. When was year zero?’
Kashmir’s Forever War
Basharat Peer
‘Yes, the gun was from Pakistan, but the stones are our own. That is our only weapon against the occupation.’
The House by the Gallows
Intizar Hussain
‘Along with religion, an unthinking nationalism had become the other god of Pakistan.’
Arithmetic on the Frontier
Declan Walsh
‘These days the tempest of Taliban violence ripping across the frontier has shaken Peshawar to its core.’
Pop Idols
Kamila Shamsie
‘In our grandmother’s generation, when people became more religious, they turned devout. Now they turn fundamentalist.’
