Publisher	Red Turtle
Publication Year	2013
ISBN-13	9788129121097
ISBN-10	8129121093
Binding	Hardcover
Number of Pages	152 Pages
Language	(English)
Weight (grms)	395

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Musharraf Ali Farooqi was born in 1968 in Hyderabad, Pakistan, and currently lives in Karachi. His previous novel, The Story of a Widow, was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2010. He is also the highly acclaimed translator of Urdu classics Hoshruba and The Adventures of Amir Hamza, contemporary Urdu poet Afzal Ahmed Syed s selected poetry and Urdu writer Syed Muhammad Ashraf s novel The Beast. His children s fiction includes The Amazing Moustaches of Moochhander the Iron Man and Other Stories and the picture book The Cobbler s Holiday or Why Ants Don t Wear Shoes