Isbn: 9798190870794 - hope for sale (3 résultats)

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Hope for Sale brings together ten stories in which memory, imagination and social reality illuminate one another. The wonder and mischief of childhood stand beside the burdens of adulthood; tenderness meets cruelty, faith meets uncertainty, and private longing is tested by poverty, violence, duty and social hypocrisy.Rooted in the landscapes, speech and cultural memory of Pakistan, yet reaching far beyond any single place, the collection moves with assurance between realism, satire, horror, philosophical reflection and quiet tragedy. At its centre are ordinary people-wounded, compromised, bewildered, but never stripped of dignity.With symbolic depth and emotional restraint, these stories pause beside lives too easily overlooked: lives shaped by family, desire, loss, silence and the need to continue. Here, hope is neither effortless optimism nor a comforting slogan. It is imagined, endured, prayed for and carried forward-the final human refusal to surrender. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…