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49
/100
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Readers
54/100Critics
44/100Scholars
Author:
Samira Shackle
Publisher:
Melville House
Date:
September 7, 2021
A journey around Karachi in the company of those who know the city inside out.
What The Reviewers Say
At the heart of the book are Safdar, Parveen, Siraj, Jannat and Zille, and their lives between 2015 and 2019. An ambulance driver, a crime reporter, a schoolteacher, a village woman, an NGO worker, they live in the poorer, more dangerous parts of the city, Lyari, Orangi, Kiamari, Landhi. Their voices dominate this book, and through them the reader slowly understands this bewildering, compelling and massive city.
... profiles, with great vividness, five individuals who serve as narrative linchpins in a tale of a city hurtling from one crisis to the next.
Shackle excels at drawing out the incisive quote.
... a jigsaw story, pieced together from interviews Ms. Shackle conducted between 2015 and 2019 with five Karachiites who are, in her view, broadly representative of the city’s demographic types.
