Books by Osman Haneef
“This novel is more serious. It’s about a Christian boy who is framed. I don’t remember who he’s framed by, but he’s framed for writing on a mosque wall. A human rights lawyer tries to defend him. Towards the end, he says that the child is uneducated, so he couldn’t have written on the wall, so he’s being framed for something he hasn’t done. It talks about minority rights; it talks about the law; it talks about how things can be mangled in Pakistan sometimes. It also has a slight love story angle to it because the lawyer has a love interest and she’s also a lawyer and she’s helping him out. I really like what Haneef has done with this fiction story, and this is, I think, also loosely based on true events.” Read more...
Safinah Danish Elahi, Novelist
Interviews where books by Osman Haneef 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.
