No Funeral for Nazia by Taha Kehar.

Thank you @The_WriteReads/@WriteReadsTours for letting me be part of this tour and reviewing this book. No funeral for Nazia is the first book I have read by Taha Kehar, and it was a pleasure to read. The story about Nazi who is a writer and has died. Nazia has given instructions to her sister for no funeral but evening to celebrate her, and her sister has to invite six guests and one is a mystery, and they will get a letter each that will change their lives. The story follows what happens in that one event, and you get to know the guests a bit more. I liked that a lot and started to work out which characters I like and the characters I did not trust like her best friend Parveen and her ex-husband. I felt like I understood Nazi as well through the other characters eyes. Furthermore, I did enjoy finding out about the rituals and culture in Pakistani what happens when people die. No Funeral for Nazie is a unique book and is beautifully written. This book is very different to what I normally read and expected, but I loved it. I read this book in two days. A great read 5 stars. Blurb Nazia Sami is a celebrated author, but perhaps her greatest plot twist is yet to be produced. In her final days, she wields a pen one last time as she fills her diary with instructions for her sister, Naureen, and writes six letters to be delivered after her death. There is to be no funeral for Nazia. Instead, only six invitees are asked to attend a party, one of whom is a mystery guest. Over the course of an extraordinary evening, secrets are revealed, pasts reconsidered, and lives are forever changed. Perfect for fans of MOHSIN HAMID and KAMILA SHAMSIE, No Funeral for Nazia is a striking and inventive exploration of what death can mean for both the deceased and those left behind. About the Author Taha Kehar is a novelist, journalist and literary critic. A law graduate from SOAS, London, Kehar is the author of three novels, No Funeral for Nazia (Neem Tree Press, 2023), Typically Tanya (HarperCollins India, 2018) and Of Rift and Rivalry (Palimpsest Publishers, 2014). He is the co-editor of The Stained-Glass Window: Stories of the Pandemic from Pakistan. Kehar has served as the head of The Express Tribune’s Peshawar city pages and bi-monthly books page, and worked as an assistant editor on the op-ed desk at The News. Kehar’s essays, reviews and commentaries have been published in The News on Sunday, The Hindu and South Asia magazine and his short fiction has appeared in the Delhi-based quarterly The Equator Line, the biannual journal Pakistani Literature and the OUP anthology I’ll Find My Way. Two of his short stories appeared in an anthology titled The Banyan and Her Roots, which has been edited by the British writer Jad Adams. In 2016, he guest-edited an issue of The Equator Line, titled ‘Pakistan: After The Stereotypes’, that focused on new writing from Pakistan. Kehar curates Tales from Karachi: City of Words, an Instagram e-anthology that publishes flash fiction from and about Karachi. He recently compiled and edited the first print anthology of the initiative titled Tales from Karachi (Moringa, 2021). Based in Karachi, he teaches undergraduate media courses.