Farzana Versey's Books
Jun.01.2008
‘You need to be deported,' said the retired army general. What follows is not deportation but the beginning of an exploration, both personal and political, of the Pakistani mind and that of a nation state. It becomes the beginning of an exploration, both personal and political. An Indian Muslim woman traveling alone in a supposedly restricted space with a socio-psychological...
She writes with anguish and pessimism, a journey into hearts of darkness with no light at the end of that distorted prism, mainly because as she astutely observes, “every few years Pakistan writes a new fiction” to keep the embers alive. ”
—India Today
About Farzana
To be categorised is near-death. It would be nice to say that one is a literary vagabond, but it just does not convey fully the sense of rootlessness and ruthlessness one strives for constantly.
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Farzana’s Favorite Books
Every writer, besides the ones I have listed, who has had something to convey that leaves me with the taste of bitter chocolate...that I like.