'Hussein vibrantly evokes the Karachi of the 1950's and 1960's in an affectionate tribute to a long marriage'
Guardian

'Framed in distilled prose, this is a moving fable about this slow and sometimes startling growth of love. A slender delight.'
Financial Times

'Readers of Hussein's precise poetic prose in this quietly melancholy novel will be similarly rewarded'
TLS

'The fable, exquisite in craftsmanship and engaging in its humour, is nothing less than an allegory of Pakistan.'
Padraig Belton

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