A stunning collection. Each story, remarkable in both expansiveness and precision, sings with heartbreaks, intelligence and elegy. Acclaimed both in Pakistan and in Britain, Aamer Hussein's first collection of stories, Mirror to the Sun, was chosen by Shena Mackay as one of her Books of the year in 1993. In this long awaited second collection - which includes the experimental sequence 'Skies' - he continues and deepens his oblique, subversive portrayal of the ...
