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BOOK REVIEW: AMARBAIL BY UMERA AHMED

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  Title:  Amarbail  Author: Umera Ahmed   Rating: 4.5/5  If you are someone very close to me, you would know I am one of the craziest fans of Umera Ahmed. Today I am going to review my favorite novel where I cried buckets. Amarbail – another milestone by the writer. The book has many characters and stories severely unveiling themselves. It is about the barbaric bureaucratic system of Pakistan. The story centers on Alizey Sikandar, a young introvert girl from a broken family living with her maternal grandparents in Lahore. Her grandfather is a retired civil servant. And her uncles and cousins are serving in and out of Pakistan in the best positions. Alizey is brought up in a closed environment. She is treated like a child, and she’d always have someone else’s opinion influence her mind. But I like how the writer has shown the development of Alizey’s character in the novel. Her life changes when her cousin, Umer Jahangir, comes to live with them. I read t...
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BOOK REVIEW: AKS BY UMERA AHMED

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Title: Aks  Author: Umera Ahmed  Rating: 4.5/5 Umera Ahmed is one of my favorite novelists. Her uncanny ability to hook readers into her stories is unmatched. Reading Umera Ahmed's novels always leaves me in awe, be it Amarbail or Man O Salwa. A similar thing happened when I first completed Aks. It was a big emotional rollercoaster ride.  Aks is not one of the very usual stories written by Umera Ahmed. Therefore, many people may find the story hard to accept and digest. It is a kind of story that challenges traditions and stereotypes around us. It may not change the mindsets, but its primary purpose is to start a debate on such issues. The story revolves around many characters meeting at a certain point, like a puzzle or a riddle to be solved. Chiriya is an eight years old little girl who lives with her grandfather, who is a civil cook at the government residence of the deputy commissioner. She has 7 imaginary friends called dwarfs. One summer, she befriends Aibek Sultan,...
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