Sumaiya Fathima pushes the limits of fiction with her distinctive wit and beguiling intelligence in this thought-provoking and entertaining collection of short stories.
To all those who have ever experienced love and survived it, this is a story about love and not. To everyone who has never fallen in love. For you, a tale An account of survival An agonising tale An account of civilization and its legends a narrative that must be read and heard.
Sumaiya’s tales depict a world where the strange and the ordinary coexist and where tales and love take on a variety of forms. ‘A NEW APARTMENT,’ a brilliant and darkly humorous portrayal of various stages of mental states of various genders, ‘STORY OF DISORDER,’ which reveals a state of a disorder the state of mind that works when you survive with a mental condition, and ‘PAUSE.,’ a dark, romantic, and series of imagined worlds with...