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Beautiful
from This Angle by Maha Khan Phillips – a Penguin Books
India release
18th September 2010, Saturday, 4:00 pm to 6:00
pm |
Dishing up the dirt on the bold, the beautiful
and the downright ugly from Karachi’s hottest page 3 parties!
Beautiful from This Angle by Maha Khan
Phillips – a Penguin Books India release*
‘Wickedly irreverent and heartbreaking in equal measure – the world
of urban Pakistani women comes alive in this irresistible novel,’
- Advaita Kala
‘An unputdownable debut.’- Kamila Shamsie
Win-a-Book Contest
About the book:
Amynah Farooqui writes ‘Party Queen on the Scene’, a weekly anonymous gossip column
for a Karachi magazine. Amynah, who makes no apologies for her life of casual sex and
recreational drugs, is the polar opposite of her best friends, Mumtaz and Henna, whom she
wishes would lighten up—especially Mumtaz, who is too uptight to be the daughter of a drug
baron.
When party regular Monty Mohsin starts raking in the moolah producing
a reality TV show called Who Wants to Be a Terrorist? Mumtaz
decides to cash in on the trend by making a documentary on violence
against women in Pakistan. And the ever-resourceful Amynah finds
the perfect subject in Nilofer, Henna’s childhood friend from the
village. As filming begins, it becomes obvious that each of them
has their own agenda—including Nilofer, who’s not as helpless and
innocent as she seems. The stress of the project, along with pressure
from Henna’s politician
Maha Khan Phillips
was born in Karachi in 1976, moved to London in 1994 where she works
as a financial journalist. She has studied politics and international
relations, as well as international conflict analysis. She went
on to do a creative writing programme, in the course of which this
novel came to be written. Phillips is married and has one son. She
divides her time between London and Karachi, and is the author of
The Mystery of the Aagnee Ruby
* An interaction with well-known author Advaita
Kala on Maha Khan Phillips’ Beautiful from This Angle
Date: 18 September 2010, Saturday
Time: : 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Venue: Maximum Store Pvt. Ltd., 5-J/1, Ground floor, Shahpur Jat,
New Delhi - 110049
RSVP and confirm your attendance at communicate@themaximumstore.com
or +91 98183 18196, +91 11 26493150, 46168026 |
Advaita Kala |
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