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New!
from Women Unlimited
No Space for Further Burials: a novel
Feryal Ali Gauhar
It’s September, 2002, one year after 9/11 and the US invasion of
Afghanistan. A U.S. army medical technician is taken captive by Afghan
rebels while on a recce mission, and thrown into an asylum with a dozen
or so other inmates. Are they refugees from the war? Derelicts?
Fugitives on the run? Men and women mad with grief and loss, or just
exhausted by the repeated violation of their country?
This astonishingly powerful novel unfolds the tragedy of Afghanistan, as
told by the captive narrator, in hauntingly beautiful prose. As the
characters try to cope with their individual destinies in the asylum’s
compound, the terrible madness of war is counterpointed with the
poignancy of their lives and the narrator’s own peculiar predicament—the
“victor” now a victim, his ambivalence a metaphor for everything
Afghanistan symbolizes. In a stunning denouement the author makes clear
that there is no winning this war, there is only a ravaged country and
those who manage to survive its insanity.
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FERYAL ALI GAUHAR read Political Economy at McGill University. She
trained in documentary film production in Europe and at the University
of Southern California. Her first novel, The Scent of Wet Earth in
August (2002) was based on her film, Tibbi Galli. She teaches film at
the National College of Art, Lahore, works as a development
communications specialist, and writes for Dawn. She has also been a
Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund.
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Demy 8vo • pp 192 • pb • Rs. 250 • ISBN: 81-88965-31-6 • Pakistani and
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