About the Book: Wandered the Traveller
A book to be treasured—Banu Mushtaq Keenly observed and unflinching—Annie Zaidi
A masterpiece—Musharraf Ali Farooqi First published in 1955, Wandered the
Traveller is a lost classic of South Asian literature—now available in English
for the first time in Daisy Rockwells revelatory translation. Nisar Aziz Butts
semi-autobiographical novel follows Afgar, a brilliant young Pashtun woman, from
a turbulent orphaned childhood, through the cloistered world of a mountain
sanatorium, to the brink of departure in pursuit of a doctorate at Cambridge.
Fiercely intelligent yet yearning for love, Afgar measures each man she meets
against the standards of her own restless mind, and