Typhoon

By Qaisra Shahraz

"Gripping, hugely involving, and very satisfying" KATE MOSSE
"A dramatic story of family intrigue, religious passions and riproaring romance" MICHELE ROBERTS

Typhoon is set in Chiragpur, a Pakistani village warped in time, space and guilt, whose inhabitants are still traumatised by what happened some twenty years earlier in a courtroom (kacheri). With the arrival of a beautiful stranger from the city, the villagers are helplessly swept along by a typhoon-like series of events and become buried under the burden of their guilt.

Closely guarding their small silk parcels containing a lock of a woman's hair, they all hope to return it to its rightful owner and beg her forgiveness. Typhoon is a tragic tale of three young women, each one demonised by their past: Naghmana - the glamorous stranger from the city; Chaudharani Kaniz - the village land baron, and Gulshan - the innocent wife.

One is caught in the arms of another woman's husband in the middle of the night; another was raped in her youth; and the third woman's world fell apart as she lost her husband, before her eyes, to a total stranger and her mother vowed revenge. For all three there is no escape from what fate has in store.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905147627
• ISBN13: 9781905147625
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Arcadia Books Limited
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.7"