The Story Of A Widow

Writer: Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Pages: 327

Category: English

Description:

After the death of her husband, Mona finds herself settling ambivalently into a new life. But the calm rhythm of her days-gardening, cooking time with her neighbours and family in Karachi -is upset by the appearance of the new tenant in her friend's house. The Story of a Widow is a beautifully observant novel, one that pays careful attention to the delicate movements of the heart in romantic and family life. But it is equally concerned with the mores of a society in which traditional roles both support and constrain men and-particularly-women. Gently humorous and profoundly perceptive, The Story of a Widow is the moving tale of a woman's discovery of her voice, and herself.

About Musharraf Ali Farooqi:

MUSHARRAF ALI FAROOQI is a world-renowned author, linguist and award-winning translator of critically-acclaimed publications for adults and children, and an international authority on classical Urdu literature. Farooqi is a Harvard University South Asia Institute fellow. He is the founding editor of the Library of Urdu Classics (urduclassics.com), the founder and editor of the Online Urdu Thesaurus (urduthesaurus.com), and the founder and CEO of Storykit which develops activity-based learning products and tools, and implements them using Farooqi's Memorise, Connect, Improvise (MCI) method of interactive storytelling.