Trespassing

Trespassing
Uzma Aslam Khan

A world-class tale of love and deceit, rivalry and destiny from the Lahore-based writer Uzma Aslam Khan.'Standing in a room with eight thousand tiny creatures, witnessing them perform a dance that few humans even knew occurred; this was life. Everywhere she looked, each caterpillar nosed the air like a wand and out passed silk… When Dia watched one spin, she came closer to understanding the will of God than at any other time.'Dia is the daughter of a silk farmer, Riffat – an innovative, decisive businesswoman. Like her mother, Dia seems at first sight unrestricted, spirited and resourceful. She seems free. But freedom has its own borders, patrolled by the covetous and the zealous, and there are those who yearn to jump the fence.Daanish has come back to Karachi for his father’s funeral, all the way from America, a land where there are plenty of rules but few restrictions. When Dia and Daanish meet, they chafe against all the formalities. It is left to a handful of silkworms, slipped inside a friend’s dupatta, tickling skin, to rupture the fragile peace of both their houses – to make the space in which Dia and Daanish can create something together…

TRESPASSING

Uzma Aslam Khan

for Dave

‘To look is an act of choice.’

JOHN BERGER

Contents

Cover (#u5bd27f21-2412-501c-a492-7a2303217f88)

Title Page (#u697dae53-2c6a-5a37-9a45-cadb6223c4aa)

PROLOGUE: Death (#u1f38d6cb-8908-5372-8262-cd6b426dde64)

Part One (#u4d69c74f-85b2-57d5-b837-47e427625441)

DIA (#u1d5b0f2e-04ad-5fd2-b1d1-1e6e5db2c71b)

1 Detour MAY 1992 (#u4adb9fa8-1aee-5f6a-be8b-096a559f52b3)

DAANISH (#u1023167a-1056-57f8-a545-3ef8322d29f3)

1 Toward Karachi (#u7fb77bae-14e1-5303-9625-e7b561a8ff65)

2 High Volume OCTOBER 1989 (#ub31dbfaa-a490-53fc-9a00-4c9d91deac9b)

3 Choice January 1990 (#u0d3afce9-79ee-50db-964e-5f7f3ec6f2b6)

4 Toward Anu MAY 1992 (#u4a2ddd82-beb1-5b95-ba7f-682adf2c1ff0)

5 RecessAPRIL 1990 (#u554a9864-24f5-587d-a217-f1d817cb7b1e)

6 ArrivalMAY 1992 (#ub00448a8-e58a-5c38-b498-7119cbc1e051)

7 The Order of Things (#u17f1f854-197b-5801-b2b6-eee5a8a3acc7)

ANU (#u2e4c38c5-2caa-5e3a-830b-2b1c76a317be)

1 Guipure Dreams (#uf73d4584-a010-51dd-bb05-4d769c4b7314)

2 Argonaut (#u88aa14b5-ecc9-523d-b299-33f5c4b6843c)

3 Girls MAY 1992 (#u5f507db6-6a44-5798-99cc-bec27b2aa3db)

4 Shameful Behavior (#uc6413743-eba7-5184-8343-f786cfcc6e42)

DIA (#u407cec3c-e731-50a8-8727-733867f49cf5)

1 More Apologies (#ub1656ee1-7882-54b1-bd4b-0a4239fffd6d)

2 Numbers (#u95ba417b-2a61-59d1-aff0-144d0583b73c)

3 Life at the Farm (#u5ad66b8d-6731-519a-8c1e-4f923e47894e)

4 Choice (#litres_trial_promo)

SALAAMAT (#litres_trial_promo)

1 Sea Space MARCH 1984 (#litres_trial_promo)

2 Look, But With Love APRIL–JUNE 1984 (#litres_trial_promo)

3 The Ajnabi JULY–DECEMBER 1984 (#litres_trial_promo)

4 In the Picture MAY 1985 (#litres_trial_promo)

DAANISH (#litres_trial_promo)

1 The Gag Order SEPTEMBER 1990 (#litres_trial_promo)

2 Revisions JUNE 1992 (#litres_trial_promo)

3 There, of course! (#litres_trial_promo)

4 Every Thirty Seconds JANUARY 1991 (#litres_trial_promo)

5 Khurram’s Counsel JUNE 1992 (#litres_trial_promo)

6 The Rainbow Parade (#litres_trial_promo)

7 The Find (#litres_trial_promo)

DIA (#litres_trial_promo)

1 Metamorphosis (#litres_trial_promo)

2 Not Clear At All (#litres_trial_promo)

3 Inam Gul For Ever (#litres_trial_promo)

4 Examination (#litres_trial_promo)