Table Of Content

Cover Page: iii Title Page Page: iii Copyright Page: i Contents Page: iv Dedication Page: v Epigraph Page: vii Prologue Page: 1 Part One Page: 5 Chapter One Page: 7 Chapter Two Page: 10 Chapter Three Page: 14 Chapter Four Page: 18 Chapter Five Page: 25 Chapter Six Page: 40 Chapter Seven Page: 50 Chapter Eight Page: 65 Chapter Nine Page: 78 Chapter Ten Page: 85 Chapter Eleven Page: 95 Chapter Twelve Page: 107 Chapter Thirteen Page: 112 Chapter Fourteen Page: 122 Chapter Fifteen Page: 129 Chapter Sixteen Page: 133 Chapter Seventeen Page: 140 Chapter Eighteen Page: 152 Chapter Nineteen Page: 156 Chapter Twenty Page: 173 Chapter Twenty-One Page: 180 Chapter Twenty-Two Page: 185 Part Two Page: 197 Chapter Twenty-Three Page: 199 Chapter Twenty-Four Page: 206 Chapter Twenty-Five Page: 215 Chapter Twenty-Six Page: 219 Chapter Twenty-Seven Page: 225 Chapter Twenty-Eight Page: 230 Chapter Twenty-Nine Page: 234 Chapter Thirty Page: 242 Chapter Thirty-One Page: 245 Chapter Thirty-Two Page: 256 Part Three Page: 263 Chapter Thirty-Three Page: 265 Chapter Thirty-Four Page: 272 Chapter Thirty-Five Page: 281 Chapter Thirty-Six Page: 288 Chapter Thirty-Seven Page: 293 Chapter Thirty-Eight Page: 296 Chapter Thirty-Nine Page: 301 Chapter Forty Page: 307 Chapter Forty-One Page: 312 Chapter Forty-Two Page: 318 Chapter Forty-Three Page: 322 Chapter Forty-Four Page: 328 Acknowledgments Page: 333 A Note on Sources Page: 337 About the Author Page: 339

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“Stunning not only on account of the author’s talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in its humanity.” —New York Times Book Review (cover) Sent back to his birthplace—Lahore’s notorious red-light district—to hush up the murder of a girl, a man finds himself in an unexpected reckoning with his past. Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, in Lahore’s walled inner city, where women continue to pass down the art of courtesan from mother to daughter. But he still remembers the day he was abducted from the home he shared with his mother and sister there, at the direction of his powerful father, who wanted to give him a chance at a respectable life. Now Wajid, once more dictating his fate from afar, has sent Faraz back to Lahore, installing him as head of the Mohalla police station and charging him with a mission: to cover up the violent death of a young girl. It should be a simple assignment to carry out in a marginalized community, but for the first time in his career, Faraz finds himself unable to follow orders. As the city assails him with a jumble of memories, he cannot stop asking questions or winding through the walled city’s labyrinthine alleyways chasing the secrets—his family’s and his own—that risk shattering his precariously constructed existence. Profoundly intimate and propulsive, The Return of Faraz Ali is a spellbindingly assured first novel that poses a timeless question: Whom do we choose to protect, and at what price?