No Funeral for Nazia

A witty and theatrical South Asian mystery novel set over the course of one single electrifying night, exploring the unfinished business death leaves in its wake.

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 and writes six letters to be delivered after her death.

There is to be no funeral for Nazia. Instead, only six invitees are invited to 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.

Taha Kehar is a novelist, journalist and literary critic. He 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. His essays, reviews and commentaries have been published in The News on Sunday, The Hindu and South Asia magazines, and his short fiction has appeared in the Delhi-based quarterly The Equator Line, the biannual journal Pakistani Literature, and the anthology, I’ll Find My Way (OUP). Taha graduated from SOAS in London with a Law degree and is based in Karachi, where he teaches undergraduate media courses.