Karachi, After Midnight, Vol. 2, Part I of III: Becoming Gay
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Volume 2, Part I of III. This paperback holds one part of Volume 2. The Volume 2 Complete Edition holds all of its parts in one book.
A gay man’s online diary from Pakistan’s dial-up era.
Karachi, After Midnight: Volume 2, Part I compiles Shams’s entries from January to April 2004.
The first part of Volume 2 begins at night. 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 feels everywhere, uncontained: in chatrooms, in passing glances, and in strangers on motorcycles.
One night, he attends a gay party. It is not grand or cinematic. It is awkward and observant. Yet for him, that night marks a crossing from imagining desire to inhabiting it. He notices the way Karachi becomes a stage after sunset and the pull of the city after midnight.
Publisher: Khajistan Press
Author: Shams Tabrizi
Language: English
Type: Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-1-970281-04-0
Pages: 240
Item Weight: 0.66 lbs
Dimensions: 5 x 8 inches
How Karachi, After Midnight is sold
The diary is published in three volumes. Each volume is one book, and it is also printed as shorter paperbacks, one per part. Buy the Complete Edition to get a whole volume in one book. Buy a part if you only want that stretch of the diary. A Complete Edition holds every part of its volume, so you do not need both.
Volume 2 (2004)
Part I: Becoming Gay
Part II: Tehzeeb-ul-Ikhlaq Chowk
Part III: Flowers of Separation
Complete Edition, Parts I to III in one book
Other volumes
Volume 1 (2003), Complete Edition
Volume 3 (2005 to 2009), Complete Edition
The Complete Editions of every volume, as a set
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