{"product_id":"wandered-the-traveller-nisar-aziz-butt","title":"Wandered the Traveller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA lost classic of South Asian literature, in English for the first time · Translated from the Urdu by International Booker Prize–winning translator Daisy Rockwell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfgar loses her parents to cholera before she is a year old, and is passed between grandmother, uncles and aunts through a turbulent orphaned childhood in the North-West Frontier. She reads everything she can reach. She grows into a young woman of formidable intellect, moving from the cloistered world of a mountain sanatorium towards the brink of departure for a doctorate at Cambridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe also wants to be loved, and this is where the trouble sits. Afgar measures every man she meets against the standards of her own restless mind, and finds each one wanting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in Urdu in 1955, Nisar Aziz Butt's semi-autobiographical novel is possibly the first work by a Pashtun writer to appear in English translation. Witty, tender and quietly devastating, it is a radical portrait of female ambition and desire from a part of the world almost entirely absent from the literary canon. Banu Mushtaq calls it a book to be treasured; Musharraf Ali Farooqi calls it a masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout the author and translator\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNisar Aziz Butt\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1927 in Mardan, near Peshawar, in the region then known as the North-West Frontier Provinces — now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaisy Rockwell\u003c\/strong\u003e is a painter, writer and translator from Hindi and Urdu. Her translation of Geetanjali Shree's \u003cem\u003eRet Samadhi\u003c\/em\u003e, as \u003cem\u003eTomb of Sand\u003c\/em\u003e, won the International Booker Prize in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a foreword by \u003cstrong\u003eAamer Hussein\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eEdition details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHarper Perennial India paperback, 384 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor sale in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives only\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished 9 September 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn the same shelf: \u003cstrong\u003eTomb of Sand\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eरेत-समाधि \/ Ret-Samadhi\u003c\/strong\u003e by Geetanjali Shree — also translated by Daisy Rockwell.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial (HarperCollins India)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52480178946264,"sku":"9789373073576","price":559.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/1471\/6632\/files\/wtl1.avif?v=1789655337","url":"https:\/\/www.readersparadise.co\/products\/wandered-the-traveller-nisar-aziz-butt","provider":"Readers Paradise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}