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ISBN-10: 0811222195
ISBN-13: 9780811222198
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 03/26/2019
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.30" W, 1.30" H

River of Fire

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Overview

The most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction, Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire encompasses the fates of four recurring characters over two and a half millennia. These characters become crisscrossed and strangely inseparable over different eras, forming and reforming their relationships in romance and war, in possession and dispossession. River of Fire interweaves parables, legends, dreams, diaries, and letters, forming a rich tapestry of history and human emotions and redefining Indian identity. But above all, it’s a unique pleasure to read Hyder’s singular prose style: “Lyrical and witty, occasionally idiosyncratic, it is always alluring and allusive: Flora Annie Steel and E. M. Forster encounter classical Urdu poets; Eliot and Virginia Woolf meet Faiz Ahmed Faiz” (The Times Literary Supplement).

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River of Fire gushes across more than 2,000 years of subcontinental history, carving narrative mountains and valleys for us to hike across. It floods us with details: names, philosophies, politics, religion, the history of Urdu literature. Each time the water recedes, Hyder's characters are left parched with nostalgia, to be quenched only when the river is next in spate. It takes inventive writing to evoke such a seasonal narrative.– "NYT" (4/8/2019 12:00:00 AM)
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811222195
ISBN-13: 9780811222198
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 03/26/2019
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.30" W, 1.30" H
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