An Abundance of Wild Roses by Feryal Ali-Gauhar (Paperback)

Fiction - Literary - World Literature - Pakistan RELEASE DATE: 6/24/2025 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE) Critically acclaimed author Feryal Ali-Gauhar's UK debut An Abundance of Wild Roses is a novel that combines lyrical storytelling with urgent contemporary themes of gender violence, tradition and patriarchy. In the Black Mountains of Pakistan, the discovery of an unconscious, unknown man is the first stone in an avalanche of chaos. The head of the village is beset with problems - including the injured stranger - 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? In a land woven with myth, chained with tradition and afflicted by war and the march of progres