The Sin of Killing: The Dance of Changing Winds on Goodreads
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Our past is chasing us. We are on the run. It reaches everything with us. We can’t beat it. Nor can we argue with it. It is such a big monster.
The Sin of Killing: The Dance of Changing Winds takes you inside Pakistan, into its hidden backyard, into the soul of the society and its culture, family system. It shows how people here fall in love and spend some time with their lovers feeling its feel before getting married to someone chosen by their families, and how sometimes divorced women or young widows get locked up in the open-air prisons of the society with limited chances of escape, and how lovers are killed by the families only for being lovers.
Young and beautiful Salma is celebrating the fifth birthday of her daughter in Lahore. Her husband looks a little upset because of something, even then everything appears fine until a mad moment comes and everything ends. Now she is in America with her daughter. Her nephew, Ahsen, is waiting for her return. He has news for her which can stop her heartbeat. Battling with the hidden past of his family, he wonders whether it will be right or wrong to give her the news. He loves her. She is his good second mother. His Aunt. He has been protecting her happiness by keeping her in the dark about a few things linked to her past. He has been battling with his family’s legacy all alone. He loves his ex-classmate and wants to marry her. But now a blast has exploded his secret substructure, and everything is scattered around him, even his love. On the heap of so many things. Like questions. Nothing is in place anymore. The girl whom he loved has gone. She has become a memory. Light has gone from his life. Darkness has covered him from all sides like a blanket. The sins of his family have become his sins and he can’t even say that he has nothing to do with anything. He has been the silent partner in the crimes committed by his elders. A tale of mismatched stars, finding new stars for living their lives, taking new start again and again. For happiness or escape. A tale of love, loyalty, betrayal, redemption, and new beginnings. It is literary fiction.
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