In the wake of September 11, Changez, a Pakistani man in Manhattan, finds his position in the city he loves suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and perhaps even love.

Accompanying the first US museum exhibition devoted to contemporary art from Pakistan, this catalogue provides a look at the trends in Pakistani art. It covers a range of subjects and media, from installation and video art to sculpture, drawing, and paintings in the 'contemporary miniature' tradition.

At a caf table in Lahore, a Pakistani man converses with a stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful meeting... Among the brightest and best of his graduating class at Princeton, Changez is snapped up by an elite firm and thrives on New York and the intensity of his work. And his infatuation with fragile Erica promises entree into Manhattan societ

Pakistan, summer 1998. In Lahore, Daru Shezab loses his job. Soon he has fallen for his best friend's wife and started mixing heroin and hash. Moth Smoke tells the story of Daru's spectacular downfall: a bittersweet tale of politics and corruption, of friendship and betrayal.

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