THE WISH MAKER PB B FORMAT – ALI SETHI

Zaki has returned home to Pakistan . . . His childhood friend and cousin Samar is getting married, and he s come to wish her happiness for the future. But returning to the family home in Lahore – crammed as it is with relatives – Zaki is confronted vividly with the past that has shaped not only his and his cousin s lives, but also those of his extended family. The Wishmaker is a sweeping, powerful epic that stretches back into the past of a troubled family in a troubled country, finding the roots of today s struggles in the lives and events that shaped yesterday . . .