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NO FUNERAL FOR NAZIA BY TAHA KEHAR

Paperback published by Neem Tree Press 19th October 2023

ISBN 9781911107743

Nazia Sami is a celebrated author, but perhaps her greatest plot twist is yet to be produced. In her final days, she wields a pen one last time as she fills her diary with instructions for her sister, Naureen, and writes six letters to be delivered after her death. There is to be no funeral for Nazia. Instead six invitees, one of whom is a mystery guest, are asked to attend a party. Over the course of an extraordinary evening, secrets are to be revealed, pasts reconsidered, and lives are forever changed.

MY REVIEW

I am one of those readers that love to explore reading fiction novels, about different cultures. It’s not often that I get to read a story on a Pakistani culture. After reading this page-turning family drama, new author Taha Kehar is now one my favourite, authors. For me what made this story a little special is the voices of different opinions. Maureen’s sister Nazia, wants her burial to be private and quiet. She didn’t want any of her friends to attend, but instead she wanted a farewell party. Maureen is happy to oblige her sister’s wishes. But Naureen’s husband, Asfand have been married for 28 years, thinks differently he wants Nazia to have a Muslim family funeral full event. After Nazia’s husband abandoned her, she had lots of affairs with many men, then she went to live with Naureen and her husband. Naureen a non smoker, starts to smoke her dead sister’s cigarettes. What is going to happen to Nazia’s new manuscript that she completed that she had submitted to her publisher. I was absolutely shocked when I discovered Asfand’s has been keeping a really big secret. Nothing seems to be straight forward there’s so much drama going on with, Nazia’s family, and Naureen, with her husband Asfand. This, sure is one of those stories that even after death, things come out of the woodworks. No Funeral For Nazia, by author Taha Kehar is the perfect must buy, must read novel, because it’s one novel no reader can ever forget. Now I can’t wait for this author’s second book that’s going to be about men friendships, which I do hope he will do some signings for.

About author Taha Kehar

Taha Kehar is a novelist, journalist and literary critic. A law graduate from SOAS, London, Kehar is the author of two novels, Typically Tanya and Of Rift and Rivalry. His third novel, No Funeral for Nazia, will be published by Neem Tree Press. He has served as the head of The Express Tribune’s Peshawar city pages and bi-monthly books page, andworked as an assistant editor on the op-ed desk at The News. His essays, reviews and commentaries have been published in The News on Sunday, The Hindu and South Asia magazine and his short fiction has appeared in the Delhi-based quarterly The Equator Line, the biannual journal Pakistani Literature and the OUP anthology I’ll Find My Way. Based in Karachi, he teaches undergraduate media courses and is planning a novel about male friendships. https://www.twitter.com/tahakehar https://www.instagram/terakehar