← Intizar HusainBastiby Intizar HusainNovel exploring memory and loss in partition between Pakistan and IndiaFind on Amazon↗About the authorIntizar HusainPakistani Urdu writer considered the greatest living prose stylist in the language before his death, known for fiction steeped in Mughal history, myth, and the melancholy of Partition. Basti is his masterwork.More by Intizar HusainThe Sea Lies Ahead→LeavesNovel addressing displacement and exile after the partition of India→A Chronicle of the Peacocks→An Unwritten Epic→The Day Will Come→City of Sorrow→