Books by Taha Kehar
“This book is by Taha Kehar. I really like the fact that he has dealt with death in a comic manner. This woman, Nazia, dies at the very beginning, and we never actually meet her, but we know her through her friends. They paint a picture of who Nazia was. Nazia has a very strange request of her husband and her friends, and that is to throw a party instead of a funeral. Funerals in Pakistan are a three-day event, people are expected to be very sad and to cry and be in grief for days, so this request was such a strange manner in which to celebrate a life. And then, to top that, Nazia calls a hypnotist to hypnotize her friends, her sister, and her husband, to get closure. I found that it was just a really great way to deal with a sad topic. It isn’t an investigation. It isn’t a murder mystery. It isn’t grief, loss; it’s just this fun book. I really enjoyed reading it.” Read more...
Safinah Danish Elahi, Novelist
Interviews where books by Taha Kehar 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.
