Saad T. Faooqi is a Pakistani expat who lived many years in Dubai. He earned a BA in English Literature from the American University of Sharjah and an MFA in Creative Writing from Kingston University London. He immigrated to Canada in 2015 and lives in London, Ontario. Farooqi’s poetry and short stories have been published internationally.
Fiction
White World
Toronto: Cormorant Books, 2024.
Publisher’s Synopsis
Pakistan, 2083 AD.
For Avaan, a gun in his hand feels as natural as breathing. As a Pakistani without citizenship, living under martial law and religious bigotry, violence has become a way of life. What respite he had from the world — his brother, his family, and Doua, the love of his life — was snatched away in a military raid.Now broken, Avaan finds himself involved in a civil war that poisons everything he’s ever touched. The army shadows his every move, a mob boss wants him dead, and a legendary resistance leader has taken a keen interest in him. But there is a ray of hope: Avaan discovers that Doua is alive. Obsessed with finding her, he takes a stand against the army, the mob, and Pakistan itself with the only thing he could ever count on: the gun in his hand.