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~ New Release - 2023
Sent back to his birthplace in Lahore’s notorious red-light district to hush up the murder of a girl, Faraz Ali finds himself in an unexpected reckoning with his past . . .
Profoundly intimate and propulsive, The Return of Faraz Ali is a spellbindingly assured first novel that poses a timeless question: Whom do we choose to protect, and at what price?
“Stunning not only on account of the author’s talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in its humanity.” -- New York Times Book Review