Maps for Lost LoversWINNER OF THE KIRIYAMA PRIZE • If Gabriel García Márquez had chosen to write about Pakistani immigrants in England, he might have produced a novel as beautiful and devastating as Maps for Lost Lovers. |
Contents
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A Breakfast of Butterfly Eggs | 24 |
Women with Tails | 49 |
The MostFamous Tamarind Tree in the Indian Subcontinent | 75 |
The Madonnas | 93 |
Like Being Born | 125 |
The Many Colours of Milk | 137 |
Hiraman the RoseRinged Parakeet | 152 |
The Sunbird and the Vine | 211 |
At Scandal Point | 237 |
Youll Forget Love Like Other Disasters | 248 |
Iriss Wings | 265 |
Raunaq | 277 |
A Thousand Broken Mirrors | 285 |
How Many Hands Do I Need to Declare My Love to You? | 297 |
A Leaf from the Book of Fates | 343 |
The Oldest Acquaintanceship in the World | 173 |
The Dance of the Wounded | 187 |
The First Lovers on the Moon | 378 |