Karachi, After Midnight: VOLUME 1, 2 & 3 — COMPLETE EDITIONS
Karachi, After Midnight: Volumes 1 and 2 — the complete two-book set. Together these volumes bring together Shams's complete entries from 2003 and 2004, preserving the writing of a young gay man documenting his life in Karachi during the early years of the internet in Pakistan.
Volume 1 compiles all of Shams's 2003 entries — Counting Traffic, Storm Season, and City Electric — moving through the city's everyday frictions. Volume 2 compiles the following year — Becoming Gay, Tehzeeb-ul-Ikhlaq Chowk, and Flowers of Separation — through chatrooms, offices, Ramadan hunger, political noise, illness, and dangerous moments of recognition. Across both, Shams writes with humor, longing, panic, tenderness, and sudden flashes of beauty. Volume 3 compiles the long ending. Shams gets the man, survives the earthquake, then watches everyone marry while he springs his friends and not himself. Benazir is shot. The crushes spin faster and mean less. His family turns on the life he refuses to surrender. After six years and more than two thousand nights at the keyboard, there is a knock on the closet door. The diary stops mid-sentence.
Volume 1
Author: Shams Tabrizi
Format: Paperback
Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 978-1970281019
Volume 2
Editors: Shams Tabrizi
Format: Paperback
Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 978-1-970281-07-1
Volume 3
Editors: Shams Tabrizi
Format: Paperback
Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 978-1-970281-12-5
Publisher: Khajistan Press
Language: English
Dimensions: 8.25 × 0.66 × 6 in each
Weight: 1.84 lb each
Dimensions: 5 × 8 in
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