{"id":18448,"date":"2024-07-27T19:24:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T23:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=18448"},"modified":"2024-10-05T16:11:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T20:11:31","slug":"saad-t-farooqi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/saad-t-farooqi\/","title":{"rendered":"Saad T. Farooqi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>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&#8217;s poetry and short stories have been published internationally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"141\" height=\"218\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2024\/10\/White-World-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19115 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2024\/10\/White-World-book-cover.jpg 141w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2024\/10\/White-World-book-cover-97x150.jpg 97w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 141px) 100vw, 141px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 141px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 141\/218;\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">White World<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Toronto: Cormorant Books, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan, 2083 AD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 \u2014 his brother, his family, and Doua, the love of his life \u2014 was snatched away in a military raid.Now broken, Avaan finds himself involved in a civil war that poisons everything he\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Saad T. Farooqi <a href=\"https:\/\/saadtfarooqi.com\/\">personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cormorantbooks.com\/\">Cormorant Books<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/saad-t-farooqi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18448","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18448"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19244,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18448\/revisions\/19244"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}