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The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack Edition: Main

Name: The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack Edition: Main
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ISBN: 9781611859157

Naqvi, H M

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Abdullah, bachelor and scion of a once prominent family, awakes on the morning of his seventieth birthday and considers launching himself over the balcony. Having spent years attempting to compile a 'mythopoetic legacy' of his beloved Karachi, the cosmopolitan heart of Pakistan, Abdullah has lost his zeal. A surprise invitation for a night out from his old friend Felix Pinto snaps Abdullah out of his funk, and saddles him with a ward-Pinto's adolescent grandson Bosco. As Abdullah plays mentor to Bosco, he also attracts the romantic attentions of Jugnu, an enigmatic siren with links to the mob. All the while Abdullah's brothers' plot to evict him from the family estate. Now he must to try to save his home-or face losing his last connection to his familial past. Anarchic, erudite and rollicking, with a septuagenarian protagonist like no other, The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack is a joyride of a story set against a kaleidoscopic portrait of one of the...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Atlantic Books;Grove Press

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

1611859158

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9781611859157