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An evocative and unflinching collection of literary short stories about the forgotten souls of South Asia and the immigrant experience.This powerful collection is an echo from the valleys beneath the Black Mountains, from refugee camps that smell of dust and despair, and from the city alleyways where dignity is bartered. In the tradition of poignant literary fiction, these are not tales of heroes, but of the unseen-the donkey-man, the hooker with a child, the old man chasing a death certificate, the boy who loved a buffalo, the professor hunted for his thoughts.Author Muhammad Nasrullah Khan lays humanity bare in its most raw and resilient forms. With lyrical prose and stark imagery, each story serves as a profound window into a world where borders are drawn in blood, love is a fragile memory, and the search for meaning is the only constant. These narratives ask the urgent, haunting questions that linger in the dark: What does it mean to be human in a world that insists on making you something else? Where do we find grace when God remains silent?Ideal for readers of Khaled Hosseini, Rohinton Mistry, and Jhumpa Lahiri, this book is a masterful exploration of displacement, identity, and the quiet tragedies of ordinary life. It is a moving contribution to contemporary South Asian fiction and diaspora literature. Muhammad Nasrullah Khan is a fiction writer from Pakistan, currently living in Saudi Arabia where he is lecturer in English at Taif University. He is known for weaving Asian culture into creative evocative settings and memorable characters. In a profile of Nasrullah's work titled "A Man Who Was Donkey," The Gawanus Book called it "stunning." This short story was selected among the Notable Online Short Stories of 2003. His short story 'In Search of God' was included in Silverfish Book's Twenty-Two New Asian Short Stories, published in 2016. He has been published in Evergreen Review, Indiana Voice Journal, Newtopia Magazine, Gowanus Books, Offcourse literary Journal, The Raven Chronicles, and many others. His debut story collection, In Search of God can be found here:https://www.feedaread.com/books/In-Search-of-God-9781786979704.aspxhttps://issuu.com/nasrullahkhan2/docs/selected_short_storiesContact: 00966-506769790nasar_peace@hotmail.com, nasar_peace@yahoo.com