The Wish Maker

By: Ali Sethi

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Synopsis: 'A bitter-sweet coming-of-age saga, The Wish Maker fuses personal insight with political bite' Daily MailZaki has returned home to Pakistan . . . His childhood friend and cousin Samar is getting married, and he's come to wish her happiness for the future. But returning to the family home in Lahore - crammed as it is with relatives - Zaki is confronted vividly with the turbulent forces that have shaped not only his and his cousin's lives, but also those of his extended family. The Wish Maker is a sweeping, powerful epic that stretches back into the past of a troubled family in a troubled country, finding the roots of today's struggles in the lives and events that shaped yesterday . . . 'An engaging family saga, an absorbing coming-of-age story, and an illuminating look at one of the world's most turbulent regions' Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner'Engaging, funny, slickly structured' Independent'There's much to enjoy here . . . reveals a vibrant, turbulent Pakistan through its generations' Metro

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