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829 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 2001
I, along with all my million painful feels, would like to applaud Umera Ahmed for this outstanding piece of writing called Thora Sa Aasman.

I am absolutely speechless right now. For the bazillionth time I have wished that our writers would get the international recognition and exposure they so deserve. Exceeding 800 pages, TSA is another one of those Umera Ahmed stories that keep you gripping the edge of your seat in frustration, excitement and dreadful anticipation. It is next to impossible for me to do justice to this phenomenal book but I’ll try to do the best I can.
In a sea of characters, there is just a handful that you root and care for. This is a story of how greed and desire turn men into beasts with human-like masks and what the repercussions of leading a morally decrepit life can be. There isn’t a single protagonist, like I said before there are multiple sub-stories and each has its own set of characters. There are no heroes or even villains for that matter. They are just people living ignorantly self-serving and cruel lives, putting themselves above everything else, even family, to satisfy their selfish needs. All of them are opportunistic, thoughtless, money-grubbing monsters running after a mirage in the desert. They saunter their way through life thinking that they are untouchable. At the heart of the story, there is a simple horrible lesson; you will always reap what you sow. The consequences of your actions will catch up to you no matter how hard you fight and then there’ll be nothing left.
The epilogue was exceptionally powerful and gave me chills. The fact that sometime somewhere in the future people will live the same lives, make the same mistakes and meet the same terrible ends was enough to raise goosebumps. We all know that history has a habit of repeating itself…