About the Book: Land Lust
Evocative and crisp, Joginder Pauls Urdu stories from Dharti ka Kaal are
translated into English in land lust. His stories offer poignant glimpses of
multiracial relations in colonial Kenya and evoke insightful moments of
compassion from within harsh xenophobic environs. Pauls characters breathe life
into Paper and touch readers not just intellectually but visceral in these
stories, we confront nature and its wildness and see a palpable connection
between people and their land. Land lust attracts empathetic attention to
divisive follies of race and colour and interrogates notions of progress and
development. The writer deftly asserts the dignity of black people