Novels by three Pakistani authors make it to BBC Top 100 Novels
Earlier this week, BBC unveiled the list of ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’ and three Pakistani authors, Kamila Shamsie, Bapsi Sidhwa and Mohsin Hamid have made it to the list.
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PM Imran Khan, Mahathir Mohamad among Time’s 100 most influential people 2019 The list of 100 most influential people was unveiled on Wednesday in four categories i.e pioneers, leaders, artists, icons and titans. PM Imran Khan was named among the 100 most influential people in the category of leaders.
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How Garcia Marquez redefined Latin America? When Gabriel García Márquez wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude, he reimagined the genesis of his continent. That had real political impact
Reham Khan Book on PDF Reham Khan finally released her book after so much controversy, exactly two weeks before general elections as many of her opponents had predicted.
Renowned Bangladeshi writer Shahzahan Bachchu shot dead Bachchu, the owner of a publishing house 'Bishaka Prokashoni', had received multiple death threats for his outspoken support to secularism. His publishing house is located in Dhaka's Banglabazar area
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Exit West by Mohsin Hamid has made it to a number of international literary awards, but this time the book has bagged an award!
Mohsin Hamid won the Aspen Words Literary Prize 2018 for his fourth novel Exit West. The awards were held in New York on April 10.
"Exit West is a novel about migration and how the world is changing — and could change — and how we are all migrants, and how we can find an optimistic future together," Hamid said in his recorded acceptance speech at a ceremony.
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl According to Bookmark Book Club, Man's Search for Meaning belongs to a list of "the ten most influential books in the United States." At the time of the author's death in 1997, the book had sold over 10 million copies and had been translated into 24 languages.
Real world Disorder in John Green’s ‘Turtles All the Way Down’ John Green, No. 1 international best-selling author of “The Fault in Our Stars,” released his newest novel “Turtles All the Way Down”. The book has excellent writing, funny, nerdy banter and love stories.
In his memoir, titled The Contractor: How I Landed in a Pakistani Prison and Ignited a Diplomatic Crisis, Davis talks in detail about his experience in Pakistan. (Read Free on PDF)
Meditation on motherhood and spiritual wellbeing from Turkey’s leading author As she plummeted into post-partum depression, Shafak looked to the experiences of other prominent female writers. Black Milk by Elif Shafak is now available in Pakistan (Buy Now)
The Silk Roads: a new history of the world
The book consists of 25 chapters and moves chronologically from the earliest civilisations in Central Asia to the Second Gulf War and touches, in conclusion, on the current challenges facing what the West terms the ‘Middle East’. Complex national, international and commercial histories, as well as a maelstrom of religious and racial issues, are in constant interplay. Yet it is never bewildering.
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Pakistan: A hard country. Pakistan, Anatol Lieven writes in his new book, is "divided, disorganised, economically backward, corrupt, violent, unjust, often savagely oppressive towards the poor and women, and home to extremely dangerous forms of extremism and terrorism".
Go Set a Watchman to Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee Sometimes, novels have afterlives that no author could anticipate. Go Set a Watchman shakes the settled view of both an author and her novel. And, unless another surprise for readers lies somewhere in her files, this publication intensifies the regret that Harper Lee published so little. Low Priced Edition Rs 500
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A modern take on spirituality. Looking for inner peace? In the Now (present moment) we are reminded the powers that we human often tend to ignore. In this book, now available in Pakistan, hugely successful author Eckhart Tolle guides us through a challenging journey to fine the power of now. Title: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
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