Typhoon
Published on 2. August 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-905147-62-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Gripping, hugely involving, and very satisfying" KATE MOSSE
"A dramatic story of family intrigue, religious passions and riproaring romance" MICHELE ROBERTS
Typhoon is set in Chiragpur, a Pakistani village warped in time, space and guilt, whose inhabitants are still traumatised by what happened some twenty years earlier in a courtroom (kacheri). With the arrival of a beautiful stranger from the city, the villagers are helplessly swept along by a typhoon-like series of events and become buried under the burden of their guilt.
Closely guarding their small silk parcels containing a lock of a woman's hair, they all hope to return it to its rightful owner and beg her forgiveness. Typhoon is a tragic tale of three young women, each one demonised by their past: Naghmana - the glamorous stranger from the city; Chaudharani Kaniz - the village land baron, and Gulshan - the innocent wife.
One is caught in the arms of another woman's husband in the middle of the night; another was raped in her youth; and the third woman's world fell apart as she lost her husband, before her eyes, to a total stranger and her mother vowed revenge. For all three there is no escape from what fate has in store.
"A dramatic story of family intrigue, religious passions and riproaring romance" MICHELE ROBERTS
Typhoon is set in Chiragpur, a Pakistani village warped in time, space and guilt, whose inhabitants are still traumatised by what happened some twenty years earlier in a courtroom (kacheri). With the arrival of a beautiful stranger from the city, the villagers are helplessly swept along by a typhoon-like series of events and become buried under the burden of their guilt.
Closely guarding their small silk parcels containing a lock of a woman's hair, they all hope to return it to its rightful owner and beg her forgiveness. Typhoon is a tragic tale of three young women, each one demonised by their past: Naghmana - the glamorous stranger from the city; Chaudharani Kaniz - the village land baron, and Gulshan - the innocent wife.
One is caught in the arms of another woman's husband in the middle of the night; another was raped in her youth; and the third woman's world fell apart as she lost her husband, before her eyes, to a total stranger and her mother vowed revenge. For all three there is no escape from what fate has in store.
Reviews / Votes
'Gripping, hugely involving and very satisfying to read' - Kate Mosse'Gripping, involving and satisfying read' - Indie Magazine'You enter room after inner room in this book so full of vivid detail about the lives and loves, the duties and desires in Muslim family life living in Chiragpur, a village on the subcontinent. These are rooms and stories few people in the west know, care to enter or understand. They could begin that adventure with this novel' - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown'Qaisra Shahraz received wide critical praise for her first novel , The Holy Woman which became a best seller. Her second novel Typhoon... set in Chiragpur, a Pakistan village. With the arrival of a beautiful stranger from the city, the villagers are helplessly swept along by typhoon like series of events and become buried under the burden of their guilt' - Area News Today'Qaisra Shahraz made a mark with her first novel Holy Woman about a privileged young woman in Pakistan who following a family tragedy is bound to the Qu'ran and a life of celibacy to keep her family's fortune secure. Its follow up Typhoon goes to rural Pakistan to pick up the stories of the first book's minor characters' - Metro'Author of best selling novel The Holy Woman Qaisra Shahraz is back with her long awaited second work about love, jealousy, adultery and rape' - Asian News'A tale of love and deceit set in Pakistan' - The Kahleej Times Online'A stormy new second novel' - Chorlton, Whalley Range and Fallowfield'Typhoon is a tragic tale of three young women each one demonised by their past' - Desi'The book is a riveting family saga' - Bradford Telegraph & ArgusMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quercus Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
mass market paperback
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
304 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-905147-62-5 (9781905147625)
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Qaisra Shahraz FRSA is a prize-winning and critically acclaimed novelist, scriptwriter and peace and gender activist. She is the founder, curator and Executive Director of MACFEST, Muslim Arts and Culture Festival. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a literary judge, a former Director of Gatehouse Books and Asia Pacific Writers & Translators partnership, advisor to International Journal IJRHS. Her novels - The Holy Woman, Typhoon, Revolt - and her collections of short stories - A Pair of Jeans and other stories and The Concubine & The Slave Catcher - stories from around the world - have been translated into several languages.