INVITATION

Book ID/图书代码： 00200011B47039

English Summary/英文概要： The novel’s narrator, Shahbaz, is a young Pakistani from Paris who returns out of a 19-year exile to his home city in West Pakistan, to settle a family property dispute. He arrives in a 1970s Karachi preparing for democracy, seething with political machination, corruption and class tensions – and, above all, facing the prospect of a changing power balance between the dominant West Pakistani establishment and the Bengalis of East Pakistan. The property dispute pits Shahbaz against his father’s older sister, Mona Phuppi, a strong-willed woman with deep a knowledge of Karachi and, unlike Shahbaz, certain of her place in it. More than defeating his aunt, Shahbaz wants to reclaim a place in a Karachi aristocracy he was once entitled to. He soon accepts the help of an old friend of his father’s, a retired brigadier who runs a popular cabaret and is a close associate of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, slowly rising to political power.

Shahbaz’s new prestige ensures him access to a world of cabaret dancers and general good living that he never had as an immigrant in Paris, and to powerbrokers who can deliver the family property to him. But the costs of the brigadier’s continued patronage – and Shahbaz’s fear of losing that patronage – escalate the more time Shahbaz spends in the city, particularly after he becomes acquainted with two members of the Jamaati- Islami, a religious party willing to go to extremes to keep a young country intact. When he is finally asked to betray his one true friend in Karachi, a charismatic Bengali taxi driver, Shahbaz faces something worse than not belonging to a nation: being complicit in its crimes

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事的叙述者尚巴斯（Shahbaz）是一位从巴黎归来的巴基斯坦小青年，流亡在外已有19年。这次回来是为解决一场家族纷争。20世纪70年代，他来到卡拉奇市投身民主事业，面临最大的威胁就是西巴基斯坦与东巴基斯坦的孟加拉之间权力的平衡与否。与他争产的是他父亲的姐姐。她是个意志坚定的女人，对卡拉奇市了解很深，她和尚巴斯不一样，对自己的地位很清楚。尚巴斯并不想和姑姑斗，只想拿回属于他自己的东西。所以他接受了父亲旧部的帮助，一点点拿回政权。尚巴斯的新身份使他获得了作为巴黎移民从未享受过的尊宠。与此同时，他也怕失去旅长的支持与拥护。然而，当他被要求背叛一位知交好友的时候，他面临的是更可怕的...(兼职翻译-XJJ)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 谢莱•法兹里（Shehryar Fazli ），毕业于麦克吉尔大学及马赛诸萨大学创意写作项目，国际危机组织南亚地区编辑、高级分析师，这是一个致力解决“死结”的团体。目前居于巴基斯坦首都伊斯兰堡。这是他的第一部小说。

Shehryar Fazli is the South Asia Regional Editor and Senior Analyst for the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based research and advocacy organization focused on resolving deadly conflict. He is a graduate of McGill University and the creative writing program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He lives in Islamabad, Pakistan. Invitation is his first novel.

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