A powerful novel which takes the reader on a journey of terror and cruelty in Pakistan in the 1970s. A time of religious fanaticism and with a precarious state of government it is all too easy to fall foul of both factions. Nassud, whose husband dies as a result of a shooting, is forced to flee along with Helen, a Christian and Imran, a refugee from Kashmir. Atmospheric and scary, it brings it home that these are very recent events.