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An abundance of wild roses / Feryal Ali-Gauhar.

by Gauhar, Feryal Ali.

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Canongate, 2024.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

Mountains -- Fiction.

Villages -- Fiction.

Survival -- Fiction.

Pakistan -- Fiction.

9781838858162 (hc.)

311 p. ; 23 cm.

In the Black Mountains of Pakistan, the discovery of an unconscious, unknown man is the first stone in an avalanche of chaos. The head of the village is beset with problems including the injured stranger 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? In a land woven with myth, chained with tradition and afflicted by war and the march of progress, the spirits of the mountains keep a baleful eye on the struggles of the villagers who scrape a living from the bodies of their wildlife. As the elements turn on the village, can humanity find a way to co-exist with nature that doesn't destroy either of them?

Domestic fiction.

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