Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City - Softcover

Shackle, Samira

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783785403 ISBN 13: 9781783785407

Publisher: Granta Books, 2022

Synopsis

Pakistan's largest city is a sprawling metropolis of 20 million people. A place of political turbulence, where lavish wealth and absolute poverty sit side by side, and where the lines between idealism and corruption can quickly blur.

Through the stories of those who know the city best - including a journalist, an activist, and an ambulance driver - Samira Shackle paints a vivid, vibrant and often violent portrait of Karachi over the past decade: a period during which the Taliban arrived in Pakistan, adding to the daily perils of its residents and pushing their city into the international spotlight. Nuanced and fast-paced, Karachi Vice is an immersive, electrifying journey around one of the most compelling cities in the world.

About this title

About the Author

SAMIRA SHACKLE is the editor of New Humanist magazine and a regular contributor to the Guardian Long Read She travels regularly to Pakistan, where she has family, and spent extensive time there working on the book. Karachi Vice is her debut.

From the Back Cover

A fast-paced journey around Karachi in the company of those who know the city inside out - from an electrifying new voice in narrative non-fiction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783785403
• ISBN 13: 9781783785407
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272