Song of GulzarinaAuthor :
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Published : Friday 11 November 2016
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A suicide bombing is being planned in Manchester, UK. Behind it lie Saleem Khans vivid memories - some full of regret and yearning, others humorous and yet others overshadowed by the surreal brutality of war. In the 1960s, he leaves his lover, his job as a teacher and his home in rural Pakistan and travels to Bradford, a town seething with racism where Asians are Pakis and their labour is cheap. He finds a job working in a mill on an all-Asian night-shift, becomes an active trade unionist and, when the mills close down, he drives a taxi. He gives up his religion and eventually falls in love with an English woman. But in the 1980s Pakistan draws him back. Now regarded as a smart abroadi, he gets involved as the English-speaking partner in his cousins transport business. When a truck driver he knows does not return to base, Saleem Khan sets out to find him and unwittingly gets drawn across the border and into the killing fields of Afghanistan. Here, among Russian soldiers, Saudi A
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