About the Author

Musharraf Ali Farooqi is an author, novelist and translator. His novels include Between Clay and Dust and The Story of a Widow. He is also the author of the critic ally acclaimed translation of the Urdu classic, Hoshruba: The Land and the Tilism, the first book of a projected 24-volume magical fantasy epic; Urdu writer Syed Muhammad Ashrafs novella, The Beast; and a selection of contemporary Urdu poet Afzal Ahmed Syeds poetry, Rococo and Other Worlds.