Fireflies in the Mist [Paperback]

Championed by Salman Rushdie inQurratulain Hyder has a place alongside her exact contemporaries, MilanKundera and Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, as one of the worlds major livingauthors.A wonderful writer. She pairs enormous erudition with a careful eyeto detail. Hers is one of the most important Indian voices of the 20thcentury.In confidently writing about Indias Buddhist and Hindu past, Hyder, aMuslim by birth, also provides an example of the secular literary cultureof the subcontinent that has largely remained untainted by sectarian tensions.One womans journey through the tumultuous and passionate birth of a new nation.