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The Sea Lies Ahead
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In 1947 young Jawad Hassan gives up his ancestral home in India and his fiancee Maimuna for a dream country founded by Jinnah. And even though the newly created state of Pakistan is thronged by a huge number of zealous Muslims ready to lead from the front the rapid breakdown of law and order in Karachi makes many like Jawad retreat into reminiscences of their past in undivided India. The second in Intizar Husain's acclaimed trilogy The Sea Lies Ahead takes up the story of Pakistan where the first novel Basti (1979) ended: poised on the verge of breaking off from its eastern arm. This is a novel about those muhajirs the author himself among them who went to the promised Land of the Pure and were met with mistrust prejudice and apathy. Equally it is a rich portrait of the new culture of urban Pakistan fostered by people who came from the countless towns and hamlets in and around Lucknow Meerut and Delhi. Bringing alive unforgettable characters with its sparkling prose this novel is a powerful exploration of Islamic history and the story of Pakistan's great disillusionment.
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