Aamina Ahmad

Profoundly intimate and propulsive, The Return of Faraz Ali is a spellbindingly assured first novel that poses a timeless question: Whom do we choose to protect, and at what price? Aamina Ahmad sets her expertly crafted tale in the labyrinthine alleyways of the notorious red-light district of Lahore, Pakistan, where an investigator sent to hush up the violent murder of a young girl finds himself reckoning with his past.

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