Description

"It rarely happens that a novel comes this close to the word ‘novel’: being absolutely unique in the world it presents to the reader. Mirza Athar Baig’s new novel, Hasan ki Soorat-e-Haal: Khali Jagahain Pur kero is one such piece of fiction which makes one think of the genre not as a description of a world but a world in itself. The novel being a world in itself is very much like what a cosmologist, Andre Lindy proposes in his theory of the inflationary universe according to which our universe maybe just one of many universes each with its own governing laws. These self-created laws of coherence that a novel generates for its life-world are brought together by the dynamic intersection of social, political, psychological and spiritual force fields of this multidimensional entity.