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Zarrar Said

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Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction

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Zarrar Said was born in Lahore and spent his childhood between Dubai, Lahore and the US. He has an undergraduate degree in business from The Ohio State University and a graduate degree in quantitative finance from George Washington University.

Zarrar's debut novel, Pureland, is a fictionalized narrative based on the tragic life of Dr. Abdus Salam, a Nobel prize winning physicist who was excommunicated by the country of his birth and who spent his entire adult life in exile due to his religious affiliations. Dr. Salam's achievements in science and his remarkable story was then eradicated from his country's educational curriculum. Pureland is the retelling of that tragedy in the form of a love story told through magical realism.

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