Grieving for Pigeons
Twelve Stories of Lahore (Revised Edition)
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- Athabasca University Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2024
- Subjects
- Pakistan, Short Stories (single author), 20th Century
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- 9781771994330
- Publish Date
- Feb 2024
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Description
In this poignant and meditative collection of short stories, Zubair Ahmad captures the lives and experiences of the people of the Punjab, a region divided between India and Pakistan. In an intimate narrative style, Ahmad writes a world that hovers between memory and imagination, home and abroad. The narrator follows the pull of his subconscious, shifting between past and present, recalling different eras of Lahore’s neighbourhoods and the communities.
These stories evoke the complex realities of post-colonial Pakistani Punjab. The contradictions and betrayals of this region’s history reverberate through the stories, evident in the characters, their circumstances, and sometimes their erasure. Skillfully translated from Punjabi by Anne Murphy, this collection is an essential contribution to the wider recognition of the Punjabi language and its literature.
About the authors
Zubair Ahmad is the author of two poetry collections, three short story collections, a translation, and a collection of essays, all written in Punjabi. Two of his short story collections were finalists for the Dhahan Prize for Punjabi Literature in 2014 and 2020. He lives in Lahore, Pakistan.
Anne Murphy is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the vernacular literary and religious traditions of the Punjab. Grieving for Pigeons is her first book-length translation.
Editorial Reviews
The great strength of Grieving for Pigeons is its closeness to Zubair Ahmad’s original Punjabi. […] These stories transport the reader through a Lahore haunted by several periods of its recent history.
Pasha Khan, McGill University
Ahmad paints Lahore and its life with the finest yet distinct strokes that are very gentle at first sight, but have storms raging within.