The Royal Society of Literature is to host a special talk entitled 'The Pakistani Novel Today'.
The work of novelists Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie has focused on the human cost of conflict in their homeland.
Aslam has traced the plight of his compatriots from small-town Pakistan in Seasons of the Rainbirds and The Blind Man’s Garden, while Shamsie’s novels In the City by the Sea and Salt and Saffron have centred on struggles in her hometown, Karachi.
In a conversation chaired by essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra, Aslam and Shamsie discuss writing fiction, set in Pakistan and beyond, during the ‘war on terror’ years.
The Pakistani novel today takes place on December 2 at the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House.
Tickets are free for Members and Fellows of the RSL, and are on sale to the public at £8 (£5 concs). Book online rslit.org.
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