Bilal Tanweer: The Scatter Here is Too Great [2015] paperback PHOTO It's Ferris Bueller's Day Off

It's Ferris Bueller's Day Off with murder

the founding of the UN

the poems are written in May's absorbing

they are at the same time tender

Bilal Tanweer: The Scatter Here is Too Great [2015] paperback PHOTO It's Ferris Bueller's Day OffShortlisted for the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Winner of the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2014 The Scatter Here Is Too Great heralds a major new voice from Pakistan with a stunning debut a novel told in a rich variety of distinctive voices that converge at a single horrific event: a bomb blast at a station in the heart of the city. Comrade Sukhansaz, an old communist poet, is harassed on a bus full of college students minutes before