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About the Author
Aamer Hussein was born in Karachi and moved to London in 1970. He has held visiting posts at the University of Southampton and the University of London, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Book Info

978-1-84659-024-5
Fiction
April 2007
13 x 20 cm
Paperback
152 pages
£8.99

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Reviews
'Both disconcerting and alluring...the further the reader travels into Hussein's landscape of erosion, the more potent his capacity to find beauty becomes.' Times Literary Supplement

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Excerpts
A little way down the road, I saw a pond where egrets, their every move elegant, were washing their wings. Nearby, in a puddle or a ditch, a dun sow wallowed with her piglets around her. 'd never thought much about pigs before: when I was a girl, we weren't even allowed to mention them, they belonged with the other unmentionables like snakes and lizards and dogs.

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