Trespassing

5 Assembling (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two (#litres_trial_promo)

SALAAMAT (#litres_trial_promo)

1 Here JULY 1992 (#litres_trial_promo)

2 The Bus JUNE 1986–FEBRUARY 1987 (#litres_trial_promo)

3 Blue MARCH 1987 (#litres_trial_promo)

4 The Fire (#litres_trial_promo)

5 Ashes (#litres_trial_promo)

6 Brother and Sister APRIL 1987 (#litres_trial_promo)

7 The Witness (#litres_trial_promo)

ANU (#litres_trial_promo)

1 The Doctor Looking In JULY 1992 (#litres_trial_promo)

2 The Clue (#litres_trial_promo)

3 The Doctor Looking Out (#litres_trial_promo)

DIA (#litres_trial_promo)

1 Turmoil and Bliss (#litres_trial_promo)

2 Rain (#litres_trial_promo)

3 The Blending of the Ways (#litres_trial_promo)

4 Darkness (#litres_trial_promo)

DAANISH (#litres_trial_promo)

1 News AUGUST 1992 (#litres_trial_promo)

2 Ancestry MAY–OCTOBER 1991 (#litres_trial_promo)

3 Rooms AUGUST 1992 (#litres_trial_promo)

4 Thirst (#litres_trial_promo)

5 The Authorities (#litres_trial_promo)

6 Open-ended (#litres_trial_promo)

SALAAMAT (#litres_trial_promo)

1 Schoolboys MAY 1987 (#litres_trial_promo)

2 Discipline JUNE 1987 (#litres_trial_promo)

3 Fate (#litres_trial_promo)

4 The Highway (#litres_trial_promo)

5 Remains AUGUST 1992 (#litres_trial_promo)

6 Fatah’s Law (#litres_trial_promo)

7 A Visitor (#litres_trial_promo)

RIFFAT (#litres_trial_promo)

1 A Usual Day (#litres_trial_promo)

2 Awakening APRIL–MAY 1968 (#litres_trial_promo)

3 Her Job, His Fight JUNE 1968 (#litres_trial_promo)

4 Parting JULY 1968–JULY 1972 (#litres_trial_promo)

5 What Sumbul Says AUGUST 1992 (#litres_trial_promo)

DIA (#litres_trial_promo)

1 Fourth Life (#litres_trial_promo)

EPILOGUE Birth (#litres_trial_promo)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

also by Uzma Aslam Khan (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

PROLOGUE Death (#ulink_7d821d42-5a1a-573e-9f0a-89490df39285)

The fishing boats dock before the dawn, while the turtle digs her nest. She watches with one eye seaward, the other on the many huts dotting the shore. The nearest is just thirty feet away. She burrows fiercely, kicking up telltale showers of sand, recalling how much safer it had been when the coastline belonged to the fishermen. Now the boats sail in like giant moths, and though she wonders at their catch, it is for the visitors from the city, hidden in their huts, that her brow has creased beyond her age.