| Though Pakistani writing in English has thrown up a few individual success stories in the past couple of decades, there still isn't a cohesive, widely known body of work by women writers. |
| This new anthology by Women Unlimited (an associate of Kali For Women) brings together some stories by that marginalised group. |
| And the World Changed includes short fiction by well-known and highly regarded authors like Kamila Shamsie, Bapsi Sidhwa, Sara Suleri Goodyear. |
| Many of the stories explore familiar subjects but illuminate them through the freshness of the writing "" like Qaisra Shahraz's 'A Pair of Jeans', in which a conservative couple's glimpse of their future daughter-in-law in a Western outfit undoes a carefully nurtured relationship. |
| The collection is edited by Muneeza Shamsie, whose story 'Jungle Jim' is also included. |
| THE MAGICIAN'S GUILD By Trudi Canavan Atom £4.99 469 pages |
| In fantasy literature, all good things still come in threes, and this is Book One of the Black Magician trilogy by the Melbourne-based Canavan (who works for Aurealis, a magazine of Australian fantasy and science-fiction). |
| The Magicians' Guild is set in the city of Imardin where Sonea, a young street girl, discovers she has magic powers that can be used against the tyrannical ruling guild. |
| You'll find most of the staples of the genre in the story that follows. Also keep your eyes peeled for the next two books in the series, The Novice and (ho-hum) The High Lord. |
| THE TAGORE OMNIBUS VOL 1 Penguin Books India Rs 595 724 pages |
| Penguin India has been doing its bit to revive the Bengali Renaissance, with collector's editions of the works of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya and now Rabindranath Tagore. |
| This omnibus contains three novels "" Chokher Bali (which has found new readers because of the recent film), Yogayog and Ghare Baire (famously filmed by Satyajit Ray) "" as well as two novellas "" Chaturanga and Malancha. The translations are by Sreejata Guha, Kaiser Haq, Hiten Bhaya and Malosree Sandel. |
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