In English
Sahitya Akademi 2022 · Winner
Dream Mirage
خواب سراب · Khwab Saraab
Novel · 460 pages
AI-generated summary:A man in Lucknow who grew up on old people's tales of the courtesan Umrao Jaan becomes convinced her story was never fully told, and sets out through the old city to find the version its first chronicler kept back.