The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack by H.M. Naqvi
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Overview: Winner of the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, H.M. Naqvi follows his critically-lauded debut Home Boy with The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack, an enthralling novel about one unforgettable and gloriously unaccomplished man, his impending death, and the history and life of his bustling, shape-shifting city.
Abdullah, bachelor and scion of a once prominent family, awakes on the morning of his seventieth birthday and considers launching himself over the balcony. Having spent years attempting to compile a "mythopoetic legacy" of his beloved Karachi, the cosmopolitan heart of Pakistan, Abdullah has lost his zeal. A surprise invitation for a night out from his old friend Felix Pinto snaps Abdullah out of his funk, and saddles him with a ward—Pinto’s adolescent grandson Bosco. As Abdullah plays mentor to Bosco, he also attracts the romantic attentions of Jugnu, an enigmatic siren with links to the mob. All the while Abdullah’s brothers’ plot to evict him from the family estate. Now he must to try to save his home—or face losing his last connection to his familial past.
Anarchic, erudite, and rollicking, with a septuagenarian protagonist like no other, The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack is a joyride of a story set against a kaleidoscopic portrait of one of the world’s most vibrant cities.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Critical Digressions (or This, that, the Other)
On Negotiating Ontological Panic (or Down & Out)
On the Jazz Age of Currachee—An Anecdotal History
On Rites and Responsibility (or Take Five)
On Reconstructing Memory and Man
On the Hazard of Spirits (and High Tea)
On How Historiographical Sensibilities Inform the Politics of Preservation
On Roadside Metaphysics (or The Curious Case of the Phantom Firefly)
On Poeticus, Furor (or Come, If only to Leave Again)
On Consequences of the Socratic Method (or Shadowboxing)
On Mater Familias (or The Man Upstairs)
On the Possibilities of Love & Literature (or A Mostly Sentimental Education)
On the Culinary Anthropology of the Region
On the Conventions of Modern Courtship (or Had we but World Enough)
On the Death of Civility (or Brass Tacks)
An Oral History of the Cossack Era
On the Art of Entertaining in the Dark (or Kiss me Deadly)
On Signs and Symbols (or Broken in)
On the Dynamics that Inform the Dissolution of Families
On the Dark Night of the Soul (or Man with a Plan)
On how to get Things Done (or Life Lessons)
On the Consequences of Felicide (or Hegira to the Interior)
On Travels in Scinde in Time and Space
On Confronting Mortality (or Man and Mosquito)
On the Games we Play (or Hard Scrabble)
On in Vino Veritas (or Homeward Bound)
On the Proverbial Heartbreak Hotel (or via Con me)
On the Abject Failure of the Legal System (or a Cloudy Forecast)
On the Consequences of Solitude (or the Visitors)
On Confronting the other (or Tit for Tat)
On the Bona Fides of Manhood (or Razor’s Edge)
On a Conspiracy of Thieves (or Saving the day)
On the Joys of Family Life (or Landmark day)
On how to Conduct a Funeral (or Time to say Goodbye)
On Notions of Honour (or the Beginning of the end)
On Theories Pertaining to Theodicy, Anthropodicy and such
On the Proverbial Devil & Deep Blue Sea (or the Last Saint?)
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