Books by Dur e Aziz Amna
“It is about a girl who goes from Pakistan to the US for a year and stays with a host family in America. She finds out that she has tuberculosis. It’s her journey of escaping, again, the confines of culture, and going there and standing up for her own values. She finds out things that are similar and things that are different, and it’s about her experience in a small town…There were some things that I really found funny, the way she’d written about them. It’s a story about breaking the shackles and going on an adventure. She comes back home a little bit earlier than was decided initially. I think it’s really well written, and a very fun book.” Read more...
Safinah Danish Elahi, Novelist
Interviews where books by Dur e Aziz Amna were recommended
The Best Novels from Pakistan, recommended by Safinah Danish Elahi
Over the past five years, Pakistani novels have become much more focused on people’s lived experience in Pakistan—rather than just catering to the expectations of an international audience, argues novelist, lawyer and publisher Safinah Danish Elahi. She picks five of her favorite novels from Pakistan, four of them published very recently.
