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The Sea Lies Ahead
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By Intizar Husain
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Folktales carry infinite tales of mortal humans and immortal times. Intizar Husain is a master at telling tales of the human race.
- Gulzar
I am happy that a writer of Intizar Husain's stature has a translator such as Rakhshanda Jalil. Her translation retains the resonance of his past, the tremulousness of his present as well as the rhythms of his flavoursome and idiomatic Urdu.
- Javed Akhtar
In 1947 young Jawad Hassan gives up his ancestral home in India and his fiancee Maimuna for a dream country founded by Jinnah. And even though the newly created state of Pakistan is thronged by a huge number of zealous Muslims, ready to lead from the front, the rapid breakdown of law and order in Karachi makes many, like Jawad, retreat into reminiscence of their past in undivided India. It nudges them to probe the larger history of 'migration' and the rise and fall of ancient cities and civilizations. The second in Intizar Husain's acclaimed trilogy, The Sea Lies Ahead takes up the story of Pakistan where the first novel Basti (1979) ended: poised on the verge of breaking off from its eastern arm. Its title is a nod to the callous remark made by General Ayub Khan who - when asked
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