A Life in Words

Presented along with the vivid and high-energy descriptions of her childhood years are the conflicted experiences of growing up in a large Muslim family during the early decades of the twentieth century.

We get an intimate view of a writer's fierce struggle to find her own voice and depict with passion and precision the visible and subtle tyrannies of contemporary society.

A Life in Words is a searingly honest and compellingly readable memoir of the life of one of the most significant Urdu writers of all time.