Ask the Author: Sorayya Khan
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Sorayya Khan
A mystery in my own life are the paintings in my mother's life--and they could be a plot for a book, if only I could find them. I tried. Some of that story is in my new book, a memoir.
Sorayya Khan
Yes. If I answered this, it would qualify as a horror story, so I won't.
Sorayya Khan
The Buru Quartet by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Camelia Street by Mercè Rodoreda (if I can find a copy!)
The Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy
Customs by Solmaz Sharif
We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole
Camelia Street by Mercè Rodoreda (if I can find a copy!)
The Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy
Customs by Solmaz Sharif
We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole
Sorayya Khan
I'm working on a new novel, but can't say more quite yet. Let's just say that I'm thrilled to be back in a fictional universe after spending a few years writing a memoir.
Sorayya Khan
The best thing about being a writer is spending the day dreaming other worlds into reality--even if the joy comes with hard lessons about patience.
Sorayya Khan
Read as much and as widely as you can. And, write.
Sorayya Khan
The seed for City of Spies comes from a small moment in my life. When I was 17, around the time Prime Minister Z.A. Bhutto was hanged, my father read aloud a tiny item from an Urdu newspaper. In it, a father described the young son he'd just buried as a big fan of Prime Minister Z.A. Bhutto whom, the boy once predicted, would live a long life that would correspond with the boy's -- instead, the Prime Minister was dead and so, too, was the son. I remember being struck by the story, and when I began to write, the boy in the newspaper account took on a life of its own.
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