H.M. Naqvi, The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack

Nadya Chishty Mujahid (Institute of Business Administration Karachi)
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H. M. Naqvi gained some notoriety when, in 2011, he was awarded the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for his debut novel,

Home Boy

(2009), about young Pakistani men in New York City. After receiving this award, he went on to write

The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack

, a much more mature but no less fascinating book, published ten years after

Home Boy

in 2019.

The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack

is written in first-person, and the narrator -- also the titular character, and larger-than-life protagonist, a Karachi-based septuagenarian named Abdullah -- hails from the historic and centrally located area of Garden East, where he has spent virtually his entire life. Abdullah is named after a famous shrine in the Clifton district of Karachi, dedicated to the Muslim…

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Citation: Chishty Mujahid, Nadya. "The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 April 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39129, accessed 31 October 2024.]

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