Filled with almost 200 million people speaking nearly sixty languages, brought into nationhood under the auspices of a single religion, but wracked with deep separatist fissures and the destabilizing forces of ongoing conflicts in Iran, Afghanistan and Kashmir, Pakistan is one of the most dynamic places in the world today.
Fiction
- Jamil Ahmad The Sins of the Mother
- Nadeem Aslam Leila in the Wilderness
- Mohsin Hamid A Beheading
- Mohammed Hanif Butt & Bhatti
- Uzma Aslam Khan Ice, Mating
Reportage
- Lorraine Adams with Ayesha Nasir The Trials of Faisal Shahzad
- Fatima Bhutto Mangho Pir
- Basharat Peer Kashmir’s Forever War
- Jane Perlez Portrait of Jinnah
- Declan Walsh Arithmetic on the Frontier
Memoir
- Intizar Hussain The House by the Gallows
- Aamer Hussein Restless
- Sarfraz Manzoor White Girls
- Kamila Shamsie Pop Idols
Poetry
- Hasina Gul *Life and Time**
- Yasmeen Hameed PK 754
- Daniyal Mueenuddin Trying Tripe
Art
High Noon: A special collaboration with Green Cardamom, showcasing the work of fourteen Pakistani contemporary artists