num_pages: 203
description: Like his parents he too spent many hours sending cloud messages to other places messages of longing for something that he knew existed otherwhere.London that distant rainy place his father lived in once is where Mehran finds himself after leaving Karachi in his teens. And it is there that his adult life unfolds: he discovers the joys of poetry faces the trials of love and work and spends his dreaming hours sending cloud messages to other places hoping one day to tell his own story.A feeling of not quite belonging anywhere pursues Mehran as he travels to Italy India and Pakistan. But the relationships he formswith wounded passionate Marvi volatile Marco and the enigmatic Riccardaand his power of recollection finally bring him some sense however fleeting of home.Aamer Hussein was born in Karachi in 1955 and moved to London in his teens. He lectures at the University of Southampton and the Institute of English Studies and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His novella Another Gulmohar Tree was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Europe and South Asia 2010.
language: English
title: The Cloud Messenger
publisher: Telegram Books