The Runaway’by Umair Naeem now available in Pakistan
Umair
Naeem released his second book ‘The
Runaway’, published by Tara-India Research Press, at a book launch event at
Liberty Books Karachi. The launch was moderated by Yusra Askari, a print and
broadcast journalist.
The Runaway, a drama
novel set in Pakistan, is a narrative of four individuals from different walks of life,
brought together in their search for hope and redemption in the midst of a whirlpool
of hate. The Runaway is Naeem’s
second novel. His first novel, released in 2010, was titled Drowning Shadows.
Yusra Askari in conversation with Umair Naeem, the author
of The Run Away
The
main characters of the book are Sarmad, a man driven by vengeance, Kashan, a
self-proclaimed intellectual Karachiite, Nilofer a fiercely independent single
mother determined to fight for her child and Falak Sher, a criminal on the
lookout for opportunities to profit.
The
lives of these four individuals crisscross in The Runaway; as Sarmad hunts for what he hopes will be the catharsis
to his past, Kashan wonders if he can ever fall in love again, Nilofer tries to
convince herself that she is as strong as she lets on for the world and Falak
finds ways to summon power and control his destiny.
Umair
Naeem reading extracts from his latest book The Run Away
Umair
Naeem shares, “The Runaway is a
story of how lives change. Highlighting the dichotomy in Pakistan, the novel explores
overlapping parallels between the hopes and dreams of the urban elite and the
rural middle class. It’s a story of how tragedies can become turning points to
define the future, and how the faithful and the faithless can find or lose
their ways because of the past.”
‘The Runaway’ is available
at all leading stores of Pakistan & India as well as on Amazon.
Umair Naeem is a Karachi based author and ‘The Runaway’ is his second novel. He
is a marketer by profession, and his second novel is a dramatic thriller set in
Karachi.His first novel was ‘Drowning Shadows’. He has taught creative
writing, engaged in storytelling for Toffee TV and wrote for a variety of print
and online publications including Interbrand's Brand Channel, CIO Pakistan,
DAWN's Aurora and Images and Chowk.com.
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