num_pages: 244
description: Clever but troubled, Daru loses his job as a banker in Lahore and spirals down into drug addiction and dealing, where he encounters Mumtaz, the wife of a rival and a journalist who also haunts the means streets.
language: English
title: Moth Smoke
titlecomplete: Moth Smoke
genres: Literature, Crime, Asian Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Asia, Fiction, Pakistan, Contemporary, Mystery
ratings_count: 11183
places: Lahore, Punjab
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Betty Trask Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux