Telegraphy

FarahAli is a writer and translator from Pakistan. Her books include the short-storycollection People Want to Live and the novel The River, The Town.Her fiction has appeared in the Pushcart Prize, Best SmallFictions, Virginia Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review and Ecotone, amongothers. She is the co-founder of Lakeer, a digital space forwriting and art from Pakistan.

‘Farah Ali’s novel Telegraphy connects the past with the present, the mythical with the “real”. It connectsour desires, our longing, the fear that haunts even waking hours, with what weend up becoming – pieces of a whole that was fractured from the beginning, theskin around the bones just a fragile casing for the unbearable weight ofsuffering. Well crafted, deeply pensive, this is a novel that speaks to eachone of us, if we dare to speak to ourselves.’ Feryal Ali Gauhar‘Telegraphy is a deeply strange book.The ethereal quality of Farah Ali’s writing holds this curious, clever, almostdevious book with such tenderness, I felt I was in the hands of a writer whohad been working for decades to distil this fine work.’ Lara Pawson‘What a strange and beautiful book.’ ShandanaMinhas‘A true book of the body, its pains andresonances, and a bold, unique structure with a captivating voice.’ Han Smith