About the Book: This Wide Night
'I could not turn back time, I could not give life. All I wanted was to learn
what had happened to the Malik sisters.
The Maliks live a life of relative freedom in 1970s Karachi: four beautiful
sisters, Maria, Ayesha, Leila and Beena, are warily watched over by an
unconventional mother. Captain Malik is usually away, and so the women forge the
rules of their own universe, taking in a few men: Amir, the professor who falls
in love with Maria, and Jamal or Jimmy, the neighbour who tells this tale. The
curious young man is drawn in by all four