Blue Dust
Ayesha Salman
Blue Dust is an emotional, philosophical and cultural journey that maps the relationships, dreams, hopes and fears of three generations of a family in Pakistan and the Middle East.
Paperback | 5.5 x 8.5 | 216 pp
ISBN 9788186939642
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Blue Dust is an emotional, philosophical and cultural journey that maps the relationships, dreams, hopes and fears of three generations of a family in Pakistan and the Middle East. The central character is a highly volatile and loving girl/woman who struggles largely with her own insecurities in her relationships with her father, husband and sister and the world she is born into (from a social and religious point of view ultimately blurring her sense of identity). A significant thread of the narrative is the impact her relationship with her sister has on her life and personality – and the strength of that bond is one of the most enduring forces.
Her daughter also plays a pivotal role in encapsulating the emotional mood and tone of the book- particularly in exploring dichotomies of reality and perception – and the power of memory and dreams in articulating how these people respond to the events of their lives.
Through the story of this family the author also explores issues relevant to class, religious and social distinctions and the barriers caused by these, and a society which perpetuates and at the same time ignores issues of paedophilia and sexual repression.
Blue Dust is a misty, dream-like, touching but often bloody portrayal of intensely self reflexive dramas of these individual people but relevant to the wider issues and concerns of Pakistani society as well.
About the author
Ayesha Salman was born in the UK, grew up in the Middle East and went to the University of East Anglia in Norwich after which she worked in London for six years before settling in Pakistan.
She is a writer and poet. Her poems have been published in several literary journals in the UK including Smoke and Splizz. She is currently working on two more works of fiction and remains committed to experimental fiction and the complex relationship between private and public domains in terms of meaning and comprehension. She also continues to write poetry. This is her first novel. Ayesha Salman works as a writer and editor in the development sector in Pakistan.
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