An astonishing debut examining women’s lives in Pakistan and interrogating the burdens, and freedom, of love.

The painter's unpublished novel, an account of the misadventures of his autobiographical hero—a painter who wanders, dreams, remembers, frets, polemicizes, and tells stories. Translated from Italian for the first time into English.

A lyric, searching memoir that asks what it means to write with full honesty about one's life—to explore who we were, and how our choices shape and allow who we become.