Like a Diamond in the Sky

A jarring literary debut from one of South Asia's freshest and most innovative voices. Twenty-one and already jaded, Deen is frustrated by the poverty around and alienated from family and society. Deen and his partner in crime, AJ, ride high on acid and amphetamines, come down on heroin, philosoph [...]
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A jarring literary debut from one of South Asia's freshest and most innovative voices. Twenty-one and already jaded, Deen is frustrated by the poverty around and alienated from family and society. Deen and his partner in crime, AJ, ride high on acid and amphetamines, come down on heroin, philosophize in the university canteen, party in a politician's posh pad and contemplate God at a roadside tea stall. From Maria, a chemically imbalanced diva, to a philosophy-spouting rickshaw-walla, to a group of fakirs who sing about love, and a detective who has his own take on addiction, the characters in Shazia Omar's debut novel crackle with aggressive, head-spinning life.Hard-hitting and intensely moving, Omar mines his searing characters for the harsh realities of life in modern Dhaka, in all its hopelessness and despair, it's resilience and aspirations. This is an extraordinary novel, and one that is destined to launch Omar as a major contemporary voice.