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Saad T. Farooqi, "White World" (Cormorant Books, 2024)
Today I talked to Saad T. Farooqi about his new novel White World (Cormorant Books, 2024).Allah has burned the sky away. A mysterious snow falls over everything. Is it an endless winter? Is it the result of a nuclear exchange with India? A celestial impact? Now a barren wasteland, what little is left of Pakistan is heavily segregated along religious lines.For Avaan, a gun in the hand feels as natural as breathing. An apostate pariah living under martial law and religious bigotry, violence has become a way of life. What respite he had from this terrifying world — his brother, his family, and…
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