Basti

By Intizar Husain

Book Overview

An NYRB Classics Original Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain's extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and young, man and woman, Muslim and Hindu. Then Zakir, the hero, wakes to the modern world. Crowds gather. Slogans echo. Cities burn. Whether hunkered down with family or furtively meeting to exchange news with friends in cafes, Zakir is alone in a country lost to the politics of loneliness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590175824
• ISBN13: 9781590175828
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"