Aagay Samunder Hai by Intizar Hussain
A back view of woman in black jacket and knitted cap looking at sea Pakistani tourist from Pakistan Adnan clad in shalwar kameez waiting to board Emirates flight to Pakistan, sitting in airport lounge of Dubai International airport, was reading eBook, and suddenly heard an email alert sound in his smartphone. When he swiped up mobile screen to read, it was book review alert on Urdu novel آگے سمندر ہے by Intizar Hussain This Urdu novel Aagay Samunder Hai was published in 1998. In English translation, the name of Urdu novel آگے سمندر ہے would be There is sea ahead . Jawad Hassan, Maimuna, Majboor are three main characters and other historical and cultural figures including Qurtuba (Córdoba), Gharnata (Granada), and Sham (Damascus). It was a time when Pakistan and India got independence from British in 1947, protagonist named Jawad Hassan had to leave India and migrated into Pakistan. But he left behind his ancestral home and fiancée, Maimuna in India. Majboor, brother of Jawad support...