Other names for love
Soomro, Taymour2022
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At age sixteen, Fahad hopes to spend the summer with his mother in London. His father, Rafik, has other plans: hauling his son to Abad, the family's feudal estate. Rafik wants to toughen up his sensitive boy, to teach him about power, duty, family - to make him a man. He enlists Ali, a local teenager, in this project, hoping his presence will prove instructive. Instead, over the course of one hot, indolent season, attraction blooms between the two boys, and Fahad finds himself seduced by the wildness of the land and its inhabitants: the people, who revere and revile his father in turn; cousin Mousey, who lives alone with a man he calls his manager; and most of all, Ali, who threatens to unearth all that is hidden. Decades later, Fahad is living abroad when he receives a call from his mother summoning him home. His return will force him to face the past.
Main title:
Other names for love / Taymour Soomro.
Author:
Soomro, Taymour, author
Imprint:
London : Harvill Secker, 2022.
Collation:
224 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781787303041 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
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BRN:
943318
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