Noor
About This Book
Ayesha is a young newspaper reporter in Karachi, a city with a reputation as one of the most dangerous in the world. Her working days can take her to the site of a bombing, where she has to watch her step among the remains of the victims, and then straight on to a fluffy profile of her editor's niece, who designs couture cupcakes. Moving between the grim and the ridiculous is simply the job. Her personal life is no calmer. Ayesha keeps hoping to meet a decent man, someone like her old friend Saad, who gets to hear every detail after each romantic disaster. What she finds instead is a narrow field: reporters obsessed with themselves who will chase any story for the adrenaline, and rich, pampered heirs of the city's elite who will try anything to shake off boredom. And then there is the problem that feels most urgent of all: getting her hair straight when the electricity keeps cutting out. Saba Imtiaz plays the city's chaos for laughs, with a heroine whose bad dates, workplace absurdities and brushes with real danger are all told in the same wry voice. Readers who enjoyed Bridget Jones's Diary or Moni Mohsin's Diary of a Social Butterfly will find a similar mix of social satire and romantic mishap, here set in Pakistan's biggest city.
ISBN: 9780143440475
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