The Idol Lover and Other Stories of Pakistan

Download or read book The Idol Lover and Other Stories of Pakistan written by Moazzam Sheikh and published by Ithuriel's Spear. This book was released on 2008 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Moazzam's Sheikh's sexually-charged tales unfold against a backdrop of colonization and ethnic tensions in Pakistan and the Middle East, and they also explore the immigrant's dilemma in the United States. He "maps the ways in which South Asian identities cohere and threaten to disintegrate at the contradictory intersections of memory, desire, connection, and exploitation... Sheikh's voice too, is unique, bringing to the English short story the flavor and verve of the Urdu/Hindi tradition"--A. Chakladar.