Intizar Husain

Intizar Husain is one of Pakistan's—and South Asia's—greatest living writers. Basti, a haunting modernist echo chamber of voices from Hindu, Buddhist, and Islamic traditions, unflinchingly depicts contemporary political violence in prose that is suffused with a deep nostalgia for a much less tormented age. Basti is a transformative vision of both present and past. -Pankaj Mishra Basti is a beautifully...