The Scatter Here Is Too Great, (Paperback)

from starbox

"This scatter I have gathered..make sense of things...read the crystal design on the broken screen", 4 January 2016 This review is from: The Scatter Here is Too Great (Hardcover) "Ever seen a bullet-smashed windscreen?" Bilal Tanweer begins this book. "The hole at the centre throws a sharp clean ...

from conniemcmartin

3.5 stars rounded up to 4 since I think I would have enjoyed it more had I read it in a day or two rather than over the course of a week. It would have helped me to more fully appreciate the interconnections of the characters from one story to the next. Despite the bomb blast event, it is not a t...

from revliz

This took me 4 months to read, because each story is so intense. As crisp as the shards of glass.

from icolford

Bilal Tanweer's The Scatter Here Is Too Great is a collection of linked stories that some reviews have described as a novel (the jacket blurb says it is a "novel-in-stories"). The stories are set in modern Karachi and depict a city driven by a fierce and manic energy, where the desperate inhabita...

from musichick52

This novel is accompilation of stories revolving around a snapshot of the day of the bombing of the train station in Karachi, Pakistan. We are shown the consequences of each of these lives through portraits painted by the author's words, an interesting look into life in this violent city. My than...