description: Unknown to many readers in the West, Pakistan has a rich, vital literary tradition. The work included in A Dragonfly in the Sun represents the some of the most vibrant writing to come out of Pakistan in recent memory. Literary journalist Muneeza Shamsie brings together a retrospectiveselection of fiction, poetry and drama by over forty Pakistani writers including Tarik Ali, Hanif Qureshi, Bukghana Ahmed and Amir Hussein.Opening with the pre-partition works of Shahid Shurawardy and Ahmed Ali, A Dragonfly in the Sun contains extracts from Bapsi Sidwa's The Candy Man , the prose and poetry of Zulfikar Ghose, as well as the prize winning chapter from Sara Suleri's Meatlessà . Comprehensive in scope, the book includessuch classical work as the poetry of Rafat and Hanif Qureshi, as well as more recent work from a newer generation of Pakistani writers such as Ria Faisal Imam, Moniza Alvi and Sorayya Y. Khan.
language: English
title: A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English
titlecomplete: A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English (Jubilee Series)
genres: Pakistan, Fiction
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Oxford University Press