Intizar Husain

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  • Bibliography:
    5 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1998
  • Latest Book:
    November 2016
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Book List in Order: 5 titles

  • Seventh Door and Other Stories

  • A Chronicle of the Peacocks

    Intizar Husain is the most important modern short story writer in Urdu. This volume gathers together fifteen of his stories, all drawing imaginatively upon the rich narrative traditions of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist mythologies. The volume also includ...

  • Basti

    An NYRB Classics OriginalBasti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain’s extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old...

  • The Sea Lies Ahead

  • The Death of Sheherzad

    A man scours the town he left fifty years ago for some modest evidence of past joys. Javed, who has returned to Lahore from East Pakistan, won’t speak of what he witnessed in his time away. In her dreams, an old woman boards a train full of dead an...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Intizar Husain has published 5 books.

Intizar Husain does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Death of Sheherzad, was published in November 2016.

The first book by Intizar Husain, Seventh Door and Other Stories, was published in April 1998.

No. Intizar Husain does not write books in series.
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