• ISBN13: 9788189738747
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction
• Publisher: Niyogi Books
• Publisher Imprint: Niyogi Books
• Publication Date: August 16, 2010
• Pages: 376
• Original Price: INR 395.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 592 grams

The book deals with the experiences of Robert, an American professor, who meets and falls in love with Anara, a young Kazakh girl. Robert invites Anara to live with him in north Cyprus. Travel through picturesque Cyprus and discover where Anara’s destiny leads her.

Javaid Qazi has been writing fiction for over four decades. His collection, Unlikely Stories, was published by Oxford University Press in 1998. His stories have appeared in Massachusetts Review, Chelsea, Toronto South Asian Review, Kansas Quarterly and Sequoia. He has also translated and published the stories of well-known Urdu authors such as Intezar Hussain, Nayyar Masood and Ahmed Hamesh. He was born near Lahore in 1947. In 1968 he went to the United States to study English literature. Over the last forty years, he has taught English literature in various universities in the U.S., at Manas University in Bishkek, Kyrghyz Republic and at Girne American University in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus. He has also worked as a technical writer in the computer industry. He lives in San Jose, California with his wife.