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The Cloud Messenger

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London, that distant rainy place his father lived in once, is where Mehran finds himself after leaving Karachi. 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'. A feeling of restlessness pursues Mehran as he travels to Italy, India and Pakistan. But the relationships he forms - with wounded, passionate Marvi, volatile Marco and the enigmatic Riccarda - and his power of recollection finally bring him some sense, however fleeting, of belonging, in this beautifully poignant paean to lost love.

About the Author :
Aamer Hussein was born in Karachi in 1955 and moved to London in the 1970s. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and reviews regularly for the Independent. Aamer has published four collections of stories and a novella, Another Gulmohar Tree (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Europe and South Asia in 2010).

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'A thing of beauty - You must read it' Nadeem Aslam 'Elegantly melancholy, yet sharp-eyed too - A shower of pleasures' Julia O'Faolain 'The Cloud Messenger is imbued with a romanticism which stems as much from the European tradition as it does from classical Persian poetry - A hauntingly grown-up novel of love and contingency, friendship and tragedy.' Alison Fell 'Its approach is intellectual, its prose unabashedly literary; true to the promised of its prologues, it is a 'story that's rain coloured: rain-grey, rain-blue' - Sophisticated, cosmopolitan and seductive, the novel engages mind and senses alike - Marrying the grace of early twentieth-century European writing with an Islamic sensibility, Hussein decorates his text with quotations from Urdu, Sindhi, Farsi and Sufi poets.' Andre Naffis-Sahely, Times Literary Supplement '...we are caught in the riveting net of Mr. Hussein's words, their haunting beauty lingering long after the final page has been read. Mr. Hussein's descriptive powers lean generously toward the poetic and are immediately engaging.' New York Journal of Books


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781846591037
  • Publisher: Telegram Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Telegram Books
  • ISBN-10: 1846591031
  • Publisher Date: 30 Sep 2011
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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