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Four periods of history are linked by recurring characters: ancient India, the Lodi and Mughal era, British rule, and Partition and after. The novel asks what a shared South Asian identity means. Hyder translated it into English as River of Fire (1998).
An epic Urdu novel spanning 2,500 years of South Asian history; she later moved back to India from Pakistan.