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Trespassing
Uzma Aslam Khan
A world-class tale of love and deceit, rivalry and destiny from the Lahore-based writer Uzma Aslam Khan.'Standing in a room with eight thousand tiny creatures, witnessing them perform a dance that few humans even knew occurred; this was life. Everywhere she looked, each caterpillar nosed the air like a wand and out passed silk… When Dia watched one spin, she came closer to understanding the will of God than at any other time.'Dia is the daughter of a silk farmer, Riffat – an innovative, decisive businesswoman. Like her mother, Dia seems at first sight unrestricted, spirited and resourceful. She seems free. But freedom has its own borders, patrolled by the covetous and the zealous, and there are those who yearn to jump the fence.Daanish has come back to Karachi for his father’s funeral, all the way from America, a land where there are plenty of rules but few restrictions. When Dia and Daanish meet, they chafe against all the formalities. It is left to a handful of silkworms, slipped inside a friend’s dupatta, tickling skin, to rupture the fragile peace of both their houses – to make the space in which Dia and Daanish can create something together…
TRESPASSING
Uzma Aslam Khan
for Dave
‘To look is an act of choice.’
JOHN BERGER
Contents
Cover (#u5bd27f21-2412-501c-a492-7a2303217f88)
Title Page (#u697dae53-2c6a-5a37-9a45-cadb6223c4aa)
PROLOGUE: Death (#u1f38d6cb-8908-5372-8262-cd6b426dde64)
Part One (#u4d69c74f-85b2-57d5-b837-47e427625441)
DIA (#u1d5b0f2e-04ad-5fd2-b1d1-1e6e5db2c71b)
1 Detour MAY 1992 (#u4adb9fa8-1aee-5f6a-be8b-096a559f52b3)
DAANISH (#u1023167a-1056-57f8-a545-3ef8322d29f3)
1 Toward Karachi (#u7fb77bae-14e1-5303-9625-e7b561a8ff65)
2 High Volume OCTOBER 1989 (#ub31dbfaa-a490-53fc-9a00-4c9d91deac9b)
3 Choice January 1990 (#u0d3afce9-79ee-50db-964e-5f7f3ec6f2b6)
4 Toward Anu MAY 1992 (#u4a2ddd82-beb1-5b95-ba7f-682adf2c1ff0)
5 RecessAPRIL 1990 (#u554a9864-24f5-587d-a217-f1d817cb7b1e)
6 ArrivalMAY 1992 (#ub00448a8-e58a-5c38-b498-7119cbc1e051)
7 The Order of Things (#u17f1f854-197b-5801-b2b6-eee5a8a3acc7)
ANU (#u2e4c38c5-2caa-5e3a-830b-2b1c76a317be)
1 Guipure Dreams (#uf73d4584-a010-51dd-bb05-4d769c4b7314)
2 Argonaut (#u88aa14b5-ecc9-523d-b299-33f5c4b6843c)
3 Girls MAY 1992 (#u5f507db6-6a44-5798-99cc-bec27b2aa3db)
4 Shameful Behavior (#uc6413743-eba7-5184-8343-f786cfcc6e42)
DIA (#u407cec3c-e731-50a8-8727-733867f49cf5)
1 More Apologies (#ub1656ee1-7882-54b1-bd4b-0a4239fffd6d)
2 Numbers (#u95ba417b-2a61-59d1-aff0-144d0583b73c)
3 Life at the Farm (#u5ad66b8d-6731-519a-8c1e-4f923e47894e)
4 Choice (#litres_trial_promo)
SALAAMAT (#litres_trial_promo)
1 Sea Space MARCH 1984 (#litres_trial_promo)
2 Look, But With Love APRIL–JUNE 1984 (#litres_trial_promo)
3 The Ajnabi JULY–DECEMBER 1984 (#litres_trial_promo)
4 In the Picture MAY 1985 (#litres_trial_promo)
DAANISH (#litres_trial_promo)
1 The Gag Order SEPTEMBER 1990 (#litres_trial_promo)
2 Revisions JUNE 1992 (#litres_trial_promo)
3 There, of course! (#litres_trial_promo)
4 Every Thirty Seconds JANUARY 1991 (#litres_trial_promo)
5 Khurram’s Counsel JUNE 1992 (#litres_trial_promo)
6 The Rainbow Parade (#litres_trial_promo)
7 The Find (#litres_trial_promo)
DIA (#litres_trial_promo)
1 Metamorphosis (#litres_trial_promo)
2 Not Clear At All (#litres_trial_promo)
3 Inam Gul For Ever (#litres_trial_promo)
4 Examination (#litres_trial_promo)
5 Assembling (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Two (#litres_trial_promo)
SALAAMAT (#litres_trial_promo)
1 Here JULY 1992 (#litres_trial_promo)
2 The Bus JUNE 1986–FEBRUARY 1987 (#litres_trial_promo)
3 Blue MARCH 1987 (#litres_trial_promo)
4 The Fire (#litres_trial_promo)
5 Ashes (#litres_trial_promo)
6 Brother and Sister APRIL 1987 (#litres_trial_promo)
7 The Witness (#litres_trial_promo)
ANU (#litres_trial_promo)
1 The Doctor Looking In JULY 1992 (#litres_trial_promo)
2 The Clue (#litres_trial_promo)
3 The Doctor Looking Out (#litres_trial_promo)
DIA (#litres_trial_promo)
1 Turmoil and Bliss (#litres_trial_promo)
2 Rain (#litres_trial_promo)
3 The Blending of the Ways (#litres_trial_promo)
4 Darkness (#litres_trial_promo)
DAANISH (#litres_trial_promo)
1 News AUGUST 1992 (#litres_trial_promo)
2 Ancestry MAY–OCTOBER 1991 (#litres_trial_promo)
3 Rooms AUGUST 1992 (#litres_trial_promo)
4 Thirst (#litres_trial_promo)
5 The Authorities (#litres_trial_promo)
6 Open-ended (#litres_trial_promo)
SALAAMAT (#litres_trial_promo)
1 Schoolboys MAY 1987 (#litres_trial_promo)
2 Discipline JUNE 1987 (#litres_trial_promo)
3 Fate (#litres_trial_promo)
4 The Highway (#litres_trial_promo)
5 Remains AUGUST 1992 (#litres_trial_promo)
6 Fatah’s Law (#litres_trial_promo)
7 A Visitor (#litres_trial_promo)
RIFFAT (#litres_trial_promo)
1 A Usual Day (#litres_trial_promo)
2 Awakening APRIL–MAY 1968 (#litres_trial_promo)
3 Her Job, His Fight JUNE 1968 (#litres_trial_promo)
4 Parting JULY 1968–JULY 1972 (#litres_trial_promo)
5 What Sumbul Says AUGUST 1992 (#litres_trial_promo)
DIA (#litres_trial_promo)
1 Fourth Life (#litres_trial_promo)
EPILOGUE Birth (#litres_trial_promo)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
also by Uzma Aslam Khan (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
PROLOGUE Death (#ulink_7d821d42-5a1a-573e-9f0a-89490df39285)
The fishing boats dock before the dawn, while the turtle digs her nest. She watches with one eye seaward, the other on the many huts dotting the shore. The nearest is just thirty feet away. She burrows fiercely, kicking up telltale showers of sand, recalling how much safer it had been when the coastline belonged to the fishermen. Now the boats sail in like giant moths, and though she wonders at their catch, it is for the visitors from the city, hidden in their huts, that her brow has creased beyond her age.
