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082			_a823 _bAKH
100			_aAkhtar, Haroon Khalid
245		0	_a Melody of a Tear _c/Haroon Khalid Akhtar
250			_a1st ed.
260			_bOlive Turtle/Niyogi Books, New Delhi: 2019.
300			_a 211 pages ; 22 cm
520			_a"Zara, the suicide-prone protagonist of ambiguous gender, is raised as a son by her father. She has never been able to cry and so when she meets Zaid, a former college-mate, she is immediately curious because of the tear she sees streaming down his face. Thus begins a quest to understand this wondrous facility of easy tears. Her search for answers leads her to a crumbling mansion where she encounters Waris, an ailing repository of ideals and wisdom who moonlights as a children's mystery writer, and Sheila and her brood who live behind the mansion, treating poverty as their religion. Here with Waris as her guide and mentor she unravels the spool of Zaid's humanity to resolve the befuddling mystery of his tears, and in the process reaches deep into the heart of her own dilemma as well."
650			_aFiction
650			_aPakistani fiction
942			_cENGLISH
999			_c545453 _d545453