Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 2 — COMPLETE EDITION
A gay man's online diary from Pakistan's dial-up era. This complete edition compiles all three parts of Volume Two: Becoming Gay, Tehzeeb-ul-Ikhlaq Chowk, and Flowers of Separation.
In Part I, Shams drives through Clifton and Defence, racing through the city with friends and lingering at traffic signals a little too long; he writes of testosterone and instinct, desire everywhere and uncontained. In Part II, he moves through rage, boredom, prayer, and dry humor — Ramadan brings hunger, politics brings noise, and religious language slips in as habit, even sarcasm. In Part III, the year closes heavier: illness, funerals, fatigue, and depression settle in, and desire carries greater risk. Yet beauty still interrupts him — a stranger on the street, a room perfectly arranged. Fear and gratitude exist side by side as 2004 ends, without resolution.
Karachi, After Midnight is the record of a life: funny, searching, often heartbreaking, always real. Shams Tabrizi is a pseudonym.
Publisher: Khajistan Press
Author: Shams Tabrizi
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 978-1-970281-07-1
Dimensions: 5 × 8 in
Weight: 1.58 lb
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