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The Wandering Falcon (2011)

by Jamil Ahmad(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1594488274 (ISBN13: 9781594488276)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

review 1: A novelette on the nomadic people living in and around the mountain ranges of Afghanistan, Balochistan and KPK's Agencies. The effects of partition on their lives and livestock echo behind their struggle to adjust. Tor Baz, a love child, wanders like a falcon does and his wandering takes the reader from one place to another. A flowing story told in simple words that engages the reader to live the events. Tribal values, traditions and passion run through the narration.
review 2: Haunting, dream-like, vaguely connected short stories set in the borderlands between Afghanistan and Pakistan in a time that seems to vary between the 1930s and 1960s. Moving through the stories as both actor and observer, as hero and sometime villain, is Tor Baz, child of an adulterous ... morecouple killed under their clan's honour code. Ahmad sketches out the world where Tor Baz comes of age--- a world of deep poverty, of ever-present violence, of dying nomadic ways, of fears of a barely understood outside world, of wandering mullahs and indifferent bureaucrats. The stories are finely crafted and follow arcs that are unpredictable and hover between comic and tragic. A small book, but one that's very much worth reading, and certainly one that sets up a pale, scorched, harsh world that has humor, kindness, and cruelty, but never, never pity. less

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