LOVE IN CHAKIWARA AND OTHER MISADVENTURES

Muhammad Khalid Akhtar

Translated from Urdu by Bilal Tanweer

This novel, first published in Urdu in 1964, describes the life of a small Karachi neighbourhood, whose daily drama is chronicled by Iqbal Hussain Changezi, a bakery owner and a collector of writers and geniuses. He has his eye on an out-of-work comedian, Chakori. Meanwhile, the town’s mostly unsuccessful healer of physical and spiritual maladies prepares to unleash his top-secret invention: the love meter.

Pan Macmillan india, 320 pages, Rs 499