In the Black Mountains of Pakistan, the discovery of an unconscious, unknown man is the first snowball in an avalanche of chaos. The head of the village is beset with problems and failing to find his way out. His daughter receives a love letter and incurs her father's wrath. A lame boy foretells disaster, but nobody is listening. Trapped in terrible danger, a wolf-dog is battling ice and death to save a soldier's life. Beaten by her addict husband for bearing him only daughters, a woman is pregnant again - but can this child save her?
As the elements turn on the village, can humanity find a way to co-exist with nature that doesn't destroy either of them?
"Written with the joyful, precise confidence of one who knows and understands her subject intimately, and who, having looked at the old, individualistic trope of the hero's journey, has resolutely turned her back on it . . . This world at once strange and familiar is evoked with great skill . . . The language sings, weaving a spell" - * Wasafiri *
"Exceptionally well-told . . . Feryal writes with complete passion and dedication about her central themes - feminism, environmentalism and the elements that must be respected about dissimilar cultures" - * Friday Times *
"An Abundance of Wild Roses will leave you breathless . . . There is a deep and poetic sadness in Feryal Ali-Gauhar's writing [and she] writes with compassion" - * Dawn *
"Compelling" - * Natura by WWF *
"Lyrical" - * Camden New Journal *
"In writing through the eyes of an American captive in Afghanistan, Feryal Ali Gauhar has fashioned a fascinating two-way mirror in which we see the author creating an Other confronting Otherness. As in Richard Powers's hostage novel Ploughing in the Dark, the mask of character reveals as much as it conceals" - * STEWART O'NAN *
"Praise for The Scent of Wet Earth in August: The Scent of Wet Earth in August was widely acclaimed across the globe . . . it blends Ali Gauhar's filmmaking sensibilities . . . the relentless experience of loss, of the endangered lives of the moral "others" - the outcasts in the much loved and hated red-light district of Lahore" - * Friday Times *
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As the elements turn on the village, can humanity find a way to co-exist with nature that doesn't destroy either of them?
"Written with the joyful, precise confidence of one who knows and understands her subject intimately, and who, having looked at the old, individualistic trope of the hero's journey, has resolutely turned her back on it . . . This world at once strange and familiar is evoked with great skill . . . The language sings, weaving a spell" - * Wasafiri *
"Exceptionally well-told . . . Feryal writes with complete passion and dedication about her central themes - feminism, environmentalism and the elements that must be respected about dissimilar cultures" - * Friday Times *
"An Abundance of Wild Roses will leave you breathless . . . There is a deep and poetic sadness in Feryal Ali-Gauhar's writing [and she] writes with compassion" - * Dawn *
"Compelling" - * Natura by WWF *
"Lyrical" - * Camden New Journal *
"In writing through the eyes of an American captive in Afghanistan, Feryal Ali Gauhar has fashioned a fascinating two-way mirror in which we see the author creating an Other confronting Otherness. As in Richard Powers's hostage novel Ploughing in the Dark, the mask of character reveals as much as it conceals" - * STEWART O'NAN *
"Praise for The Scent of Wet Earth in August: The Scent of Wet Earth in August was widely acclaimed across the globe . . . it blends Ali Gauhar's filmmaking sensibilities . . . the relentless experience of loss, of the endangered lives of the moral "others" - the outcasts in the much loved and hated red-light district of Lahore" - * Friday Times *
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