âMagisterialâ (Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books) and âto Urdu fiction what One Hundred Years of Solitude is to Hispanic literatureâ (TLS) The most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction, Qurratulain Hyderâs River of Fire encompasses the fates of four recurring characters over two and a half millennia. These characters become crisscrossed and strangely inseparable over different eras, forming and reforming their relationships in romance and war, in possession and dispossession. River of Fire interweaves parables, legends, dreams, diaries, and letters, forming a rich tapestry of history and human emotions and redefining Indian identity. But above all, itâs a unique pleasure to read Hyderâs singular prose style: âLyrical and witty, occasionally idiosyncratic, it is always alluring and allusive: Flora Annie Steel and E. M. Forster encounter classical Urdu poets; Eliot and Virginia Woolf meet Faiz Ahmed Faizâ (The Times Literary Supplement).
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