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Abundance of Wild Roses

Feryal Ali-Gauhar
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  • ISBN 9781838858209
  • Weight: 222g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Mar 2025
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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WINNER OF THE PATRAS BOKHARI PRIZE 2025
WINNER OF THE BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK COMPETITION 2025

In the Black Mountains of Pakistan, the discovery of an unconscious, unknown man is the first snowball in an avalanche of chaos. The head of the village is beset with problems and failing to find his way out. His daughter receives a love letter and incurs her father's wrath. A lame boy foretells disaster, but nobody is listening. Trapped in terrible danger, a wolf-dog is battling ice and death to save a soldier's life. Beaten by her addict husband for bearing him only daughters, a woman is pregnant again - but can this child save her?

As the elements turn on the village, can humanity find a way to co-exist with nature that doesn't destroy either of them?
About Feryal Ali-Gauhar
Feryal Ali-Gauhar is a teacher, filmmaker, actor, writer and activist. Her first novel, The Scent of Wet Earth in August, was a bestseller in India; her second novel, No Space for Further Burials, won the Patras Bokhari award and was translated into several European languages. Her third novel, An Abundance of Wild Roses, was written with the assistance of the Roger Deakin award for environmental activism. Ali-Gauhar has served as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Population Fund, and has worked extensively with women and children subjected to violence and sexual crimes. She spent forty years in the development sector, focusing on poverty, marginalisation and political inclusion. For the past fifteen years, she has worked on the two largest dams in South Asia in the area of cultural heritage management. Ali-Gauhar has been imprisoned twice by two military regimes in Pakistan. She lives in Lahore with twenty-four rescued animals, including several donkeys, a turtle and four dogs.

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