Description
One of the most compelling writers of her generation turns her unflinching gaze on her own life. In The Hour of the Wolf, Fatima Bhutto, novelist, poet and member of one of Pakistan’s most celebrated and turbulent political dynasties, offers an intimate memoir of love, coercion and survival.
Tracing her escape from a manipulative relationship, she moves between personal experience and wider reflections on grief, myth, nature and the stories we tell ourselves to heal.
Heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful, this is a conversation about trauma, resilience and the quiet courage it takes to reclaim your own life.
About the Author
Fatima Bhutto
Fatima Bhutto is the author of the novels The Runaways (Viking, 2019), praised as “astute and searing” by Kirkus Reviews, and The Shadow of the Crescent Moon (Penguin Books, 2015), longlisted for Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her most recent nonfiction book is New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop (Columbia Global Reports, 2019), which argues that the West’s cultural influence is diminishing across the globe.
Her first book is Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter’s Memoir (Nation Books, 2010) which deals with her father’s murder and the Bhutto family’s history in Pakistani politics. Bhutto’s journalism and essays have appeared in New Statesman, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, The Nation, Literary Hub and elsewhere.
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