The Edges of Time

by Farahad Zama

A Glass of Water is a simple description of a housewife going to the kitchen to slake her thirst. In The Debt, a man carries the burden of an obligation for a lifetime, never able to repay it. The Edge of Time is 1923 in a Germany reeling from the lingering effects of the lost Great War and lurching towards Nazism. In Kindness, a young Gandhi meets a bullied boy and teaches him to resist his persecutors. The Beginning takes us to the very start of the human race in Stone Age Africa. The next story talks about Success and what it means. What prompts a normally quiet daughter-in-law to blurt out harsh truths in The Truth Serum?

Farahad Zama, the award-winning author of The Marriage Bureau for Rich People, makes his first foray into short stories, covering a wide range of places, times and topics. The one thing all the stories have in common is that they will make the reader laugh and reflect.

114 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 19, 2013

About the author

Farahad Zama was born in Vizag on the Eastern coast of India in 1966. After obtaining a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Engineering at Kharagpur, near Kolkata, he moved to Mumbai to work for an investment bank. An arranged marriage to a Vizag girl soon followed. His career took him to New York, Zurich and Luxembourg and finally brought him to London for six months. Sixteen years later, Farahad is still in South London with his Vizag girl and two Croydon-born boys.
Farahad works in the City and writes on his commute and at weekends. The Marriage Bureau for Rich People is his first novel. He is delighted with its success – it was a Richard & Judy and Daily Mail book of the month, short listed for Best New Writer of the Year at the British Book Awards, Best Published Fiction at the Muslim Writers Awards and Melissa Nathan Awards for Comedy and Romance. The book is being translated into eight languages.
Zama's second and third novels, The Many Conditions of Love,and The Wedding Wallah, continues the story of Mr. Ali's "Marriage Bureau."

Reviews

[Anthea · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have read all Farahad's other books and just loved them. This was a little different as it was short stories but loved it just the same. I think I skimmed over one. But I loved revisiting Mr Ali and Co. Can't wait for the next one.