| #3540726 in Books | Interlink Books | 2005-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.26 x1.03 x6.74l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 320 pages | Interlink Books||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant pieces of confounding literature|By Jonathan Hakkeem|Naiyer Masud is sometimes compared to other authors, especially Kafka. I think that is a mistake. Masud is as original as any author I have ever read, going another level above Kafka's style into a world entirely of his own imagination. Honestly, it made me think of the brilliant Japanese author Haruki Murakami,||"Even shorn of its immense humanity, Masud's lyricism would dazzle, for he is, without doubt, a poet's storyteller."|About the Author|Muhammad Umar Memon is professor of Islamic studies, Urdu, and Persian at the University
Snake Catcher is the second collection of the acclaimed master story teller Naiyer Masud's work to appear in English. Four stories from his first collection, Seemiya (an Arabic word which can mean a number of things, among them "metamorphosis" or "the art of creating illusions"), appear here, along with seven more.
Readers of world literature may find something of Kafka's influence in these stories-or Borges, or Garcia Marquez, or Murakami. But it's surely best to s...
You easily download any file type for your device.Snake Catcher | Naiyer Masud.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
