• Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 1 — PART III: CITY ELECTRIC
  • Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 1 — PART III: CITY ELECTRIC
  • Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 1 — PART III: CITY ELECTRIC
  • Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 1 — PART III: CITY ELECTRIC
  • Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 1 — PART III: CITY ELECTRIC
  • Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 1 — PART III: CITY ELECTRIC
  • Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 1 — PART III: CITY ELECTRIC
  • Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 1 — PART III: CITY ELECTRIC
  • Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 1 — PART III: CITY ELECTRIC
  • Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 1 — PART III: CITY ELECTRIC
  • Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 1 — PART III: CITY ELECTRIC
  • Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 1 — PART III: CITY ELECTRIC

    Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 1 — PART III: CITY ELECTRIC

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    A gay man’s online diary from Pakistan’s dial-up era.

    Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 1, PART III compiles Shams’s entries from November to December 2003.

    Shams writes about gay chat channels as pure transaction, the frustration of being a virgin and not wanting sex the way strangers demand it, and the loneliness underneath the humor.

    Ramazan arrives and restructures the city. He describes sehri exhaustion, the madness of roads around aftari, and the sudden intensity of Karachi’s rhythms under fasting time. He moves between desire, guilt, and self-protection without resolving any of it.

    December ends with Eid exhaustion and long drives to visit relatives. Through it all, one feeling stays constant: he wants to keep writing.

     

    Publisher: Khajistan Press
    Author: Shams Tabrizi
    Language: English
    Type: Paperback
    ISBN-13: 978-1-970281-03-3
    Pages: 211
    Item Weight: 0.55 lbs
    Dimensions: 5 x 8 inches

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