LOVE IN CHAKIWARA AND OTHER MISADVENTURES
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Muhammad Khalid Akhtar
Translated from Urdu by Bilal Tanweer
This novel, first published in Urdu in 1964, describes the life of a small Karachi neighbourhood, whose daily drama is chronicled by Iqbal Hussain Changezi, a bakery owner and a collector of writers and geniuses. He has his eye on an out-of-work comedian, Chakori. Meanwhile, the town’s mostly unsuccessful healer of physical and spiritual maladies prepares to unleash his top-secret invention: the love meter.
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