SELECTED WORKS OF ABDULLAH THE COSSACK Hardcover

"The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack" by H.M. Naqvi is a sprawling, anarchic, and delightfully erudite novel that centers on Abdullah, a septuagenarian bachelor and scion of a once-prominent Karachi family, who wakes on his 70th birthday contemplating suicide. Having failed to compile his life's work, a "mythopoetic legacy" of his beloved city, Abdullah's zeal has waned. However, a surprising invitation from an old friend and the unexpected responsibility of mentoring his adolescent grandson, Bosco, along with a passionate affair with an enigmatic woman named Jugnu, pull him back into a whirlwind of life. As his brothers plot to evict him from his ancestral home, Abdullah finds himself entangled in a riotous journey to save his last connection to his past, offering readers a kaleidoscopic, often hilarious, and deeply moving portrait of Karachi and a gloriously unaccomplished man's quest for meaning.