Fragments of Riversong

The Tenth Anniversary edition of Farah Ghuznavi’s book Fragments of Riversong offers a beautiful new purple cover featuring an embossed design, a fully updated manuscript, and with no less than 33% of the book consisting of entirely new material. The additional short stories and flash fiction featured in this edition have increased the number of stories in the collection from the original 12 to a bumper harvest of 26 tales!

The past shows up on her doorstep, offering a woman the chance to secretly repay a favour she has almost forgotten about. The arrival of a long-awaited baby turns out to be a very different experience from what his grateful parents expected. A Bangladeshi student in London struggles to deal with an unwanted guest hell-bent on cultural tourism. A childhood friendship demands painful compromises between adults.

A brother discovers truths about his twin sister’s life that make him question everything he has taken for granted. A teenage boy in Britain finds out that some family secrets are better left buried. A successful architect suddenly finds herself the reluctant guardian of two children she barely knows. The continuous evolution of science gifts a tech-savvy generation with opportunities to use (and misuse) cutting-edge technology with surprising creativity. In societies that value conformity, challenges to the status quo can take the most unusual forms — including darkly humorous micro rebellions.

With glowing reviews from World Literature Today (USA), The Asian Writer (UK), Times of India (India) and Kitaab (Singapore) among others, these well-crafted stories will hold the reader spellbound.

Fitting together like fragments from an emerging mosaic, the narratives demonstrate a diversity of themes and variations in style, giving the reader an exhilarating and at times humorous glimpse into scenes from lives less often examined. Dispelling stereotypes and offering unexpected insights into a country that many are not familiar with, this collection tells the stories of a nation through the voices of its people, presented in a stylish special edition not to be missed!