{"title":"Feryal Ali Gauhar","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"abundance-of-wild-roses-book-feryal-ali-gauhar-9781838858162","title":"An Abundance of Wild Roses","description":"In the Black Mountains of Pakistan, the discovery of an unconscious, unknown man is the first snowball in an avalanche of chaos. The head of the village is beset with problems - including the injured stranger - and failing to find his way out. His daughter receives a love letter and incurs her father's wrath. A lame boy foretells disaster, but nobody is listening. Trapped in terrible danger, a wolf-dog is battling ice and death to save a soldier's life. Beaten by her addict husband for bearing him only daughters, a woman is pregnant again - but can this child save her?  All the while, the spirits of the mountains keep a baleful eye on the doings of the humans. In a land woven with myth, chained with tradition and afflicted by ongoing conflict and the march of progress, can the villagers find a way to co-exist with nature that doesn't destroy either of them?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49513411412241,"sku":"GOR013611209","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49753592529169,"sku":"NGR9781838858162","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50268088271121,"sku":"GOR013905573","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51055822405905,"sku":"NIN9781838858162","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53135695053073,"sku":"GOR014766360","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1838858164.jpg?v=1759231647"},{"product_id":"no-space-for-further-burials-book-feryal-ali-gauhar-9781936070602","title":"No Space For Further Burials","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA haunting, exquisitely written novel exploring the true devastation of the US war in Afghanistan.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[Feryal] Ali Gauhar's epistolary approach highlights not only the horrifying but also the withering monotony of prison life . . . it's a haunting and important read, as the war continues eight years later, without more of an end-or sense-in sight.\" --Jonathan Messinger, \u003ci\u003eTime Out Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Profoundly touching . . . Feryal Ali Gauhar questions us and forces us to face our responsibilities as universal citizens. In a mirror effect, she makes us see the image of a world that has become its own tormentor.\" --Yasmina Khadra, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Swallows of Kabu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSet in Afghanistan in late 2002, \u003ci\u003eNo Space for Further Burials\u003c\/i\u003e is a chilling indictment of the madness of war and our collective complicity in the perpetuation of violence. The novel's narrator, a US army medical technician in Afghanistan helping \"liberate\" the country from the Taliban, has been captured by rebels and thrown into an asylum. The other inmates are a besieged gathering of society's forgotten and unwanted refugees and derelicts, disabled and different, resilient and maddened, struggling to survive the lunacy raging outside the asylum compound. The novel becomes a powerful evocation of the country's desolate history of plunder and war, waged by insiders and outsiders, all fueled by ideology, desperation, and greed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This astonishingly powerful story unfolds the tragedy of Afghanistan, as told by the captive narrator, in hauntingly beautiful prose. While the characters try to cope with their individual destinies, the terrible madness of war is counterpointed with the poignancy of their lives and the narrator's own peculiar predicament--the \"victor\" now a victim, his ambivalence a metaphor for everything Afghanistan symbolizes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49624730763537,"sku":"GOR013632742","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394420969745,"sku":"CIN193607060XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51721196634385,"sku":"CIN193607060XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/193607060X.jpg?v=1751413805"},{"product_id":"abundance-of-wild-roses-book-feryal-ali-gauhar-9781838858179","title":"An Abundance of Wild Roses","description":"WINNER OF THE PATRAS BOKHARI PRIZE 2025 WINNER OF THE BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK COMPETITION 2025  In the Black Mountains of Pakistan, the discovery of an unconscious, unknown man is the first snowball in an avalanche of chaos. The head of the village is beset with problems and failing to find his way out. His daughter receives a love letter and incurs her father's wrath. A lame boy foretells disaster, but nobody is listening. Trapped in terrible danger, a wolf-dog is battling ice and death to save a soldier's life. Beaten by her addict husband for bearing him only daughters, a woman is pregnant again - but can this child save her?  As the elements turn on the village, can humanity find a way to co-exist with nature that doesn't destroy either of them?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50464296042769,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50464296206609,"sku":"NGR9781838858179","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1838858172.jpg?v=1759227427"},{"product_id":"scent-of-wet-earth-in-august-book-feryal-ali-gauhar-9780143028253","title":"The Scent of Wet Earth in August","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51328379388177,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51328381714705,"sku":"CIN0143028251VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0143028251.jpg?v=1750908451"},{"product_id":"abundance-of-wild-roses-book-feryal-ali-gauhar-9781838858209","title":"An Abundance of Wild Roses","description":"WINNER OF THE PATRAS BOKHARI PRIZE 2025 WINNER OF THE BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK COMPETITION 2025  In the Black Mountains of Pakistan, the discovery of an unconscious, unknown man is the first snowball in an avalanche of chaos. The head of the village is beset with problems and failing to find his way out. His daughter receives a love letter and incurs her father's wrath. A lame boy foretells disaster, but nobody is listening. Trapped in terrible danger, a wolf-dog is battling ice and death to save a soldier's life. Beaten by her addict husband for bearing him only daughters, a woman is pregnant again - but can this child save her?  As the elements turn on the village, can humanity find a way to co-exist with nature that doesn't destroy either of them?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51628468076817,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51628468306193,"sku":"NGR9781838858209","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52475721515281,"sku":"NLS9781838858209","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52566107848977,"sku":"NIN9781838858209","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52990097490193,"sku":"GOR014682801","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1838858202.jpg?v=1759229932"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-feryal-ali-gauhar.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}