White World by Saad T. Farooqi
Farooqi takes us to a post-apocalyptic Pakistan, where a war is waging, democracy has fallen away and a brutal military dictatorship pushes an ethno-nationalist agenda.
Farooqi takes us to a post-apocalyptic Pakistan, where a war is waging, democracy has fallen away and a brutal military dictatorship pushes an ethno-nationalist agenda.
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