This House of Clay and Water
by Faiqa Mansab
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Set in Lahore, This House of Clay and Water explores the lives of two women. Nida,
intelligent and lonely, has married into an affluent political family and is desperately
searching for some meaning in her existence; and impulsive, lovely Sasha, from the
ordinary middle-class, whose longing for designer labels and upmarket places is so
frantic that she willingly consorts with rich men who can provide them. Nida and Sasha
meet at the famous Daata Sahib dargah and connect—their need to understand why
their worlds feel so alien and empty, bringing them together. On her frequent visits to
the dargah, Nida meets the gentle, flute-playing hijra Bhanggi, who sits under a bargadh
tree and yearns for acceptance and affection, but is invariably shunned. A friendship—
fragile, tentative and tender—develops between the two, both exiles within their own
lives; but it flies in the face of all convention and cannot be allowed.
Faiqa Mansab’s accomplished and dazzling debut novel explores the themes of love,
betrayal and loss in the complex, changing world of today’s Pakistan.
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