Home Boy
5 best books like Home Boy (H.M. Naqvi): Maps for Lost Lovers, Margrave of the Marshes, The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014, Red Birds, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan
| Author | Nadeem Aslam |
| ISBN | 1400076978 |
If Gabriel García Márquez had chosen to write about Pakistani immigrants in England, he might have produced a novel as beautiful and devastating as Maps for Lost Lovers.
Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared. Like thousands of people all over England, they were lovers and living together out...
| Author | John Peel |
| ISBN | 0552551198 |
Through nigh-on forty years of laconic brilliance on Radio 1, a musical taste which defined a culture and his widely popular Radio 4 show, Home Truths, John Peel reached out to an audience that was as diverse as his record collection. He was a genuinely great Briton, beloved by millions. John's unique...
The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
| Author | Carlotta Gall |
| ISBN | 0544045688 |
Carlotta Gall has reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for almost the entire duration of the American invasion and occupation, beginning shortly after 9/11. She knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people, and how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government and...
An American pilot crash lands in the desert, unprepared for any situation that can’t be resolved with the After Eight mints in his survival kit. Hallucinating palm trees and dehydrating isn’t Major Ellie’s idea of a good time, but he figures it’s less of a hassle than another marital spat back...
The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan
| Author | Ayesha Jalal |
| ISBN | 0521458501 |
In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India. Seven years later Pakistan was created amidst a communal holocaust of unprecedented proportions. Concentrating on the All-India Muslim League and its leader, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, The Sole Spokesman...
