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 Cactus Town and Other Stories
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Author: Aamer Hussein | ISBN: 0-19-579875-9 | Format: Paperback | Pages: 230 | Weight: 0.51 lbs | Pub. Date: 2002 | Publisher: Oxford Univeristy Press
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"I read Cactus Town with pleasure and admiration. Here is a collection of stories of quest and resilience, withstanding the tremendous pressure to fall in line, insisting on defining the reality of the ‘other’, earnestly searching, responding to the striving in a multi-layered Muslim society for identity and self esteem in the modern world, turning deep anguish into energy that flows through these stories like a gentle stream. Aamer Stands his ground.
He defies contemporary dogma and chooses to evolve outside the re-drawn neat little lines of demarcation and compartmentalization. His is a uniquely different voice that we need to listen to, learn to deal with, understand. For far too long it has been ignored or suppressed both at home and in the Western milieu in which he is based.
In Aamer’s work, one rediscovers the sensuous pleasure of reading in our day, when to be considered worthy of critical acclaim, such a premium has been placed on ash-dry, faceless prose, he chooses to write with the sensitivity of a poet. He turns words into luminous metaphors, surprising the reader, reminding us that the English language can be, in fact, very beautiful."
- Fahmida Riaz, Recipient of Human Rights Watch Hellman/Hammett grant, 1997
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