A fourteen-year-old boy growing up in seventeenth-century Brazil, embarks on a series of wild escapades in search of self-esteem and identity

The incredible Brazilian

Literature & Fiction

GHOSE, Zulfikar

Literary

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

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A New History of Torments

The river flowed in a dark, narrow channel. Light filtered in diagonal streaks through the canopy of overhanging trees. Cries from unseen animals filled the air from time to time. Flocks of parrots went shrieking past overhead, almost drowning out the clatter of the diesel of the battered old boat, The Princess Isabella, that chugged its way into the dark Amazon jungle.  On board the boat, sprawled in a hammock, César Calderón stared into the dank nothingness. He had just deserted a pregnant mistress and abandoned his business. In a bar in Santa Rosa a strange man had threatened to kill him. A man to whom he had done nothing, had in no way provoked, yet who claimed he, Calderón, owed him his life.  Perhaps Calderón had no alternative but to fulfil a bewildering yet murderous destiny. For had his grandmother not offered him this disturbing advice: ‘Go and find your father, hug him and embrace him, but stick a knife in his chest and let him fall at your feet.’ For in this haunting work of fiction the son must both abandon and become the father, and the father must always embrace death in the person of the son.  Writing in a style of deceptive simplicity, Zulfikar Ghose weaves a magical spell. Don Bueno is both straightforward and rich in resonance and symbol, wonderfully dreamlike yet solidly of and about this world. In this, his ninth novel, he demonstrates once again that he is a writer of increasing stature and accomplishment who makes his own way and creates his own world without regard for facile trends or shifting tastes.

Don Bueno

Felipe Gamboa, a humble civil servant, is thrust into the hands of military police and onto a remote island where adventures in sensuality and metaphysics await him, while his daughter's boyfriend, Federico, embarks on a global journey

Figures of Enchantment

Harpercollins

Gavin Ewart, Zulfikar Ghose, B. S. Johnson (Penguin modern poets ; 25)

JOHNSON, B.S.

Ewart, Gavin

Penguin

The 30 Selected and 20 New that comprise 50 POEMS have been chosen to present a concise and representative volume of Zulfikar Ghose' poetry for the general reader and for scholars specialising in contemporary English poetry and post-colonial literature. The earliest of the selected poems-first published almost fifty years ago in The Times Literary Supplement, The London Magazine, New Statesman, The Spectator, and broadcast on the BBC Third Programme-established Zulfikar Ghose as Pakistan's premier English-language poet. Deracination, an obsessive theme in the early work, resonates as a metaphor for the human condition and gives the poems their universal appeal. The new poems draw upon a wider experience, ranging from an elegy on Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan to a meditation on an old Argentine bank note, all heightened by a philosophical underpinning which is a hallmark of Zulfikar Ghose' work. An impeccable craftsman and creator of striking images, whose themes touch the core of human experience, he is a poet of lasting significance: 50 POEMS presents his essential work.

50 poems:: 30 Selected 20 New

Poetry

Oxford University Press

This volume of poems by Zulfikar Ghose contains the poet, novelist, and critic's best work, written between 1959 and 1989. The poems have been chosen from four separate volumes published in England and the United States. Selected Poems contains both old favorites and previously uncollected poems, making it the most definitive edition to date of Pakistan's leading English-language poet.

Selected Poems

History & Criticism

This book presents a picture of Pakistani society in its earliest years through Aziz Khan, a representative of ancient and traditional values, and the Shah brothers, who exploit the resources and people of the new country for their personal gain. The intricate story gradually unfolds to reveal the emotions of its characters and describes the suffering of Aziz Khan with poignancy.

The Murder of Aziz Khan

Contemporary

Murder of Aziz Khan

John Day

Crump's terms: A novel

Macmillan

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