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The Scatter Here Is Too Great
Author: Bilal Tanweer

Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9788184004595
Pages: 214
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The Scatter Here Is Too Great heralds a major new voice from Pakistan with a stunning debuta novel told in a rich variety of distinctive voices that converge at a single horrific event: a bomb blast at a station in the heart of the city.

Comrade Sukhansaz, an old communist poet, is harassed on a bus full of college students minutes before the blast. His son, a wealthy middle-aged businessman, yearns for his own estranged child. A young man, Sadeq, has a dead-end job snatching cars from people who have defaulted on their bank loans, while his girlfriend spins tales for her young brother to conceal her own heartbreak.