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"A magical book. Shamsur Rahman Faruqi weaves history and illusion into one beautiful pattern. He clothes us richly in our past"--Nadeem Aslam "A defining work of literature."--Musharraf Ali Farooqi "An erudite, amazing historical novel, elegiac in tone and written with heartfelt attention to the details and the rituals of a lost culture."--Orhan Pamuk
About the Author:
Writing in Urdu, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi is both a novelist and a critic. He was editor and publisher of the highly regarded literary journal Shabkhoon, and is the author of a landmark four-volume study of the poet Mir Taqi Mir, and another four-volume work on Urdu's immense oral romance, Dastan-e Amir Hamza. He received the prestigious Saraswati Samman in 1996 for his contribution to Urdu literature. The Mirror of Beauty is his first novel.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0670086754
- ISBN 13 9780670086757
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages984
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