Fever Log and Other Stories

Author: Peerzada Salman

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SKU:978-969-716-336-6

Falling out of love in the time of pandemic. That is the underlying tension in Peerzada Salman’s somberly vivid remembrance of the early summer of 2020. His novella, Fever Log, artfully weaves the story of a disintegrating relationship into the larger tapestry of an epidemic in diary form. Like Salman, the protagonist is a journalist in Karachi. And it is a seamless blend of fiction with reality that constitutes a creative achievement.

Description

Mohammad Salman is a Karachi-based journalist who writes under the pen name, Peerzada Salman. He is Special Correspondent, Art and Culture, for Dawn, Pakistan’s largest English-language newspaper, and has been associated with it for the last 22 years. A column on Karachi’s colonial buildings, “The Stone Age”, for four years, a selection of which was compiled into a coffee-table book titled Karachi – Legacies of Empires. He published his first collection of English poems, Bemused, in 2017, followed by a book of Urdu poems, Waqt, in 2018. In 2021, a collection of his English short stories Ephemera came out in the form of an e-chapbook, followed by his second collection of poems, Nonplussed, and a collection of Urdu short stories, Kirdar, as e-chapbooks. His English poems have also been included in In the New Century – An Anthology of Pakistani Literature in English and Poetry in English from Pakistan – A 21st Century Anthology.