num_pages: 250
description: "A startlingly authentic voice"—Daily TelegraphAs a young man in the early 1960s, Amir leaves his small village in Pakistan to come to Britain as an illegal alien. Thirty years on, Amir has a home and a family, including Parvin, his nineteen-year-old daughter. Parvin has a mind of her own. As Amir and Parvin battle, Amir remembers a brutal crime of passion which profoundly altered the course of his life. Abdullah Hussein's first novel in English, Emigré Journeys is a powerful work of struggle, alienation and hope.o Specialist marketing to Asian media and websitesAbdullah Hussein was born in 1931. His first novel, The Weary Generations, won the prestigious Pakistani Adamji Prize. He lives in Lahore, Pakistan.
language: English
title: Emigré Journeys
titlecomplete: Emigré Journeys
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Serpent's Tail