Description
Where Cicadas Sing is the first of the independent, but linked, novels of the Tomorrow and Tomorrow Quartet. The last of the tetralogy of novels, Second Coming won the nation’s highest prize for literature in English, the Patras Bukhari Award, Pakistan Academy of Letters.
About the Author
M. Athar Tahir is an anglophone poet, essayist, short-story writer, art critic, art historian, calligraph-artist, translator and scholar of the Punjabi language. He was the Rhodes Scholar for Pakistan at Oxford University, UK, where he read English language and literature. His critical and creative work in English and translations from Urdu and Punjabi have been published in Pakistan and abroad. His books on art, culture and literature have won twelve international and national awards, including the highest national prize for literature in English, the Patras Bokhari Award four times, and the international Silver Award of the Asia Pacific Publishers Association (APPA), Seoul, South Korea. His The Last Tea and Telling Twilight were declared Book of the Week, and he was interviewed, by the Rhodes Trust, Oxford University. Tahir figures among the Scholars honoured by the Trust for their contribution to the Arts. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and a Pakistan Academy of Letters Fellow. He founded the International Centre for Pakistani Writing in English (ICPWE) at the Kinnaird College, Lahore. The civil honours, the Tamgha-i Imtiaz and Sitara-i Imtiaz were conferred on him.
Binding: Paperback · Pages: 359 · Published: 2025 · Publisher: Lightstone Publishers
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