The Wish Maker

A novel about love, family ties and self-discovery set against the turbulent world of modern Pakistan. A novel of flawless insight and sparkling prose that marked the arrival of a major talent. A nuanced, often humorous, and always novel look at life in modern day Pakistan’—Khalid Hosseini. A fresh voice from a new generation of Pakistani novelists’—Mohsin Hamid Zaki Shirazi, who is attending college in America, comes home to Lahore for the wedding of his favourite cousin, Samar Api. From the moment he arrives in Pakistan, he has to reckon with startling social and political changes that have taken place in his absence. As he gradually settles back into his family home, Zaki begins to see the people closest to him in a new light. And in the days leading up to the wedding, bittersweet memories of his childhood start flooding back to his mind, as something shifts deep within him. Lively, witty and tender, The Wish Maker is an enchanting first novel about growing up and learning to let go.