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A Finalist for the Man Asian Literary Prize, a moving and beautifully told story set in a the tumultuous days after the Partition of India and Pakistan, about a wrestling champion and a courtesan struggling to hold onto the world they knew amidst the eruptions of history.In a ruined city after the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Ustad Ramzi is still famed as a wrestler of unparalleled strength and technique. But now Ramzi’s power—if not his indomitable will—is on the wane, while his younger brother Tamami, unconcerned with traditions and hierarchy, hungers for immediate fame and glory at the risk of family honor. The courtesan Gohar Jan was once celebrated throughout the country for her beauty and the seductive power of her singing, her salon thronged by nobles, rich men, and infatuated admirers. But the aging Gohar Jan’s world is changing, too. Ustad Ramzi and Gohar Jan are both beloved paragons of a world that no longer exists, in a bewildering new reality indifferent to their art. Shortlisted for The Man Asian Literary Prize, acclaimed Pakistani author Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s novel is a bracing and elegant story of two extraordinary characters in the twilight of their lives who stand resolute as the society they've known crumbles around them. Between Clay and Dust is an arresting account of love, honor, betrayal, and the ways in which we wrestle with history.
Between Clay and Dust, by Musharraf Ali Farooqi- Amazon Sales Rank: #1020765 in Books
- Brand: Farooqi, Musharraf Ali
- Published on: 2015-09-08
- Released on: 2015-09-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .70" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 208 pages
Review “Musharraf Ali Farooqi is the angel of history. The storm called progress is blowing him into the future. It is piling wreckage at his feet, but there is so much to be done between clay and dust: As this marvelous novel shows, language is to be practiced with the rigor of style; gesture supported by graciousness; ordinary life to be rescued by ritual; and nostalgia distilled into knowledge.”—Amitava Kumar, author of Lunch with a Bigot and A Matter of Rats“A crisp and elegiac novel….Farooqi’s atmospheric prose is spare and lucid.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review“The book works like an ache in the heart, evoking cultures and values that, while not necessarily perfect, represented something larger than the self; their replacements, by contrast, are small and mean…. The pages come alive with the grunts of the trainee pehelwans and capture the last echoes of Gohar Jan’s sitar. A story that purports to be about decay resounds with the stuff of life. This is a book to be savoured like a fine single malt.”—Forbes India“Set in a decaying inner city after the partition of India, Between Clay and Dust is an elegiac but unromanticised evocation of a dying culture. The tragedy of a champion wrestler, challenged by his younger brother and befriended by an ageing courtesan, has a mythic resonance, as the characters’ ethical codes collide with the values of a new world. Farooqi’s tale is more moving for the spareness and restraint with which it is told.”—2012 Man Asian Literary Prize finalist citation“Much of the action of Between Clay And Dust alternates between sporting arenas and women’s rooms, in spaces which we tend to think of as repositories of our memories, rather than our histories. Perhaps this accounts for the power of this small, spare book, a novel which fulfils the most novelistic of purposes—to refract history through the prism of memory, and to tell us its secrets and doubts. Farooqi traces the unravelling of their world with near-uncanny attentiveness…. Farooqi’s writing is too wise and too elegant to make this a romance instead of a tragedy. As in Syed’s poem, we are left with the notion that every history is underwritten by the minute, private failures of human beings.”—Wall Street Journal“A thoughtful and emotionally articulate story about people whose lives are changing beyond their control…. Farooqi’s treatment of all his characters is sensitive and subtle.”—International New York Times“Musharraf Ali Farooqi has written a wonderful, quiet novel about how traditions and lives can decline into unmeaning…. This is a quietly affecting book, with a profound understanding of tragedy: that what happens to us is as much a function of how we respond to events as the events themselves.”—The Sunday Guardian“Farooqi’s spare, tightly honed prose and the quiet unfurling of the plot resembles the seamless movements of a dance, in which sudden implosions of violence and unexpected denouements are reflected by a change in the dancer’s steps but are contained within the fluidity of the whole. This sense of physicality and grace is enhanced by a narrative where much is suggested through gesture and nuance. At the same time, Farooqi’s eye for detail vividly brings to life the two main protagonists and their respective establishments….Between Clay and Dust is a fine novel; it never loses tension nor wastes a word and, above all, it is replete with a spectacular imagery that recreates Ustad Ramzi and Gohar Jan’s dying world.”—Newsline Magazine“What’s remarkable about this novel navigating an older world encroached upon by a newer one, is that it doesn’t mourn the change as much as try to understand how to stay relevant and urge an awareness of our part in our personal tragedies and an acceptance of our fatal flaws. Between Clay and Dust glides on understated, soulful prose, an English that feels almost like Urdu in its sensibility, for it captures the cadence of a culture in decline in post-Partition India and Pakistan, specifically, the Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb of the Subcontinent: a shared, plural composite culture and the refinement of pleasure and the arts, of which courtesans and wrestlers are perhaps its most enduring, romantic and graceful ciphers. Farooqi’s restrained prose that creates a certain lushness and heightened mood, is surely drawn from the eclipsed traditions of the kotha and akhara that it distills so wonderfully and with such dignity.” —Asian Review of Books“As far as intimate epics – that beloved but apt oxymoron of reviewese – go, Between Clay and Dust is intimate enough to pass for a whisper in the middle of pillow talk between two lovers. And yet its richness in capturing a culture at the moment of expiry is the stuff of epics…. Timelessness, sorrow, and so much emotional delicacy.” —Quill and Quire, Starred Review
From the Back Cover
Ustad Ramzi was once the greatest wrestler in the land, famed for his strength and unmatched technique. Young apprentices flocked to his akhara to learn his craft, fans adored him, and rival wrestling clans feared his resolve that would never admit defeat. The courtesan Gohar Jan was just as renowned. Celebrated throughout the country for her beauty and the power of her singing, her kotha was thronged by nobles, rich men, and infatuated admirers.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s latest novel presents these extraordinary characters in the twilight of their lives. Their skills are no longer what they once were, new challengers to their eminence have risen, and the adoring crowds and followers are long gone. An immense catastrophe has laid waste to the country; its new inheritors have no time for the old ways. Stripped of their resources and their old powers, Ustad Ramzi and Gohar Jan must face their greatest challenge yet. Powerful and haunting, Between Clay and Dust is a triumph of storytelling and a poignant exploration of love, honour, redemption, and the strength that great souls find to go on when all is lost.
Available for the first time in Canada, Between Clay and Dust was a finalist for the Man Asian Literary Prize.
About the Author Musharraf Ali Farooqi is an author, novelist, and translator. He was born in 1968 in Hyderabad, Pakistan, and now divides his time between Toronto and Karachi. His acclaimed new novel, Between Clay and Dust, was shortlisted for The Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 and longlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. In 2015, Restless Books will publish Farooqi's second novel, The Story of a Widow, which was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2011 and longlisted for the 2010 IMPACDublin Literary Award. His most recent children's fiction is the novel TikTik, The Master of Time, Pakistan's first English language novel for children. His other children's fiction includes the picture book The Cobbler's Holiday Or Why Ants Don't Wear Shoes and the collection The Amazing Moustaches of Mocchhander the Iron Man and Other Stories, shortlisted for the India ComicCon award in the Best Publication for Children category. He is the author of the critically acclaimed translations of Urdu classics, The Adventures of Amir Hamza, and the first book of a projected 24-volume magical fantasy epic, Hoshruba.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Of a Lost Time and Place By Vivek Tejuja What I love about reading is that you can always been taken by surprise. There is so much about the world that one is not aware of and reading varied genres ensures that probably one's mind and way of seeing things change. The ideas germinate themselves and sometimes you get to know of a history or an art that you never thought of casually."Between Clay and Dust" by Musharraf Ali Farooqi is one such book. I had received it earlier, however just got the time about a week ago to read and devour it. "Between Clay and Dust" is about the times gone by and arts that do not matter anymore. The story could be set in any time period. The author does not mention or give an indication of when the story begins and where is it set, which is what I liked a lot about the book. It is left to the reader to make sense of it.The two art forms that the book is centered on are wrestling (the traditional way of the akhara and of clan and honour) and the singing and dancing girls and the wonders of the kotha (nautch girls more like it). The two protagonists of the book are Ustad Ramzi, the renowned and non-disputable wrestling champion of all time, and Gohar Jan, the courtesan of her times. Both their cultures and so-called heritage are dying and they can do nothing about it. They however somehow uncannily find solace in each other, which is not of a sexual kind (since the Ustad is celibate) but something that is beyond - of the understanding of loss.On one hand we meet Tamami, Ustad Ramzi's younger brother who wants to be what Ustad is and tries very hard to gain his approval as a wrestler and somehow fails all the time. On the other, Farooqi takes us to the courtesan's way of life and the daily routine of the kotha. What I loved is the way this book is written. The language is simple and yet you can watch the book almost unraveling itself piece by piece in front of you.The emotions of the characters are beautifully expressed - from Ustad's anguish and yearning to hold on to what remains to Gohar Jan's submission to the closure of the kotha and Tamami's persistent ways (right or wrong) to seek his brother's approval, each of them are traversing in their own orbits - as lonely as the other.For me the book could have been set right after partition, either in Pakistan or India or maybe even in recent times. As I said earlier, that is but only left to speculation, which I love. The writing is fluid and got to me straight at the heart. Somehow the "beauty of resignation" was what came to mind as I read the book and maybe that is how I would like to describe the book."Between Clay and Dust" is a heartbreaking and marvelous book. Something to take you back in time and probably introspect a little of how things used to be and how they are.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. one to read By R. Brett This is a wonderful novel of codes of honor in a changing world. This is a novel of deep passion and love. In the great classical tradition there are the modern conniving of fake promoters and building code functionaries. And mercy and forgiveness in great guilt and grief. A great story.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. a very beautiful book By naheed this book was tender, sad and almost poetic. i thoroughly enjoyed reading it and it made me think about life long after the book was over.
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