Dur e Aziz Amna in conversation

Blackwell’s Manchester, in collaboration with Brown Girl Bookshelf, welcomes Dur e Aziz Amna to discuss her second novel A Splintering in conversation with Mishika Narula.

The novel follows Tara, a woman from rural Pakistan who seeks to escape the constraints of her past and the oppressive control of her brother. As she navigates life in the capital and the aspirations of middle-class society, she wrestles with desire, freedom, and the lingering shadow of her origins.

Dur e Aziz Amna is the author of American Fever, winner of the 2023 South Asian Book Award and APALA Award for Literature. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times, and Al Jazeera, and she was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2022.