Paisley by Rakhshan Rizwan Kathleen M Quinlan A noir narrative written with

A noir narrative written with the intensity and power of poetry

a return to first principles also recently adopted in the new Penguin edition of Good-bye to All That

Just as the sea around them is what makes islands islands

Miki Byrne

Paisley by Rakhshan Rizwan Kathleen M Quinlan A noir narrative written withRakhshan Rizwans debut collection simmers with a poised, driving anger. Drawing on the rich visual and material culture of her home region, Rizwan unpacks and offers critical comment on the vexed issues of class, linguistic and cultural identity particularly for women in the context of Pakistan and South Asia. She writes about the hypocrisy of the men who claim to worship women, the nuances of using Urdu or Hindi, and the many contradictions of the