by Adam Zameenzad · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006543336
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«The Thirteenth House» is the contemporary fiction novel by Adam Zameenzad, published by Flamingo in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Zahid lives besieged by chaos: his wife bewilders him, his invalid son frightens him, and poverty suffocates him. When he believes he has found a new house for his family, fate pushes him once again toward another tragedy.
Winner of the David Higham Prize for Fiction in 1987. The novel was published in 1988. The title also appears as «The 13th House».
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in an award-winning novel about family adversity.
Adam Zameenzad is the pseudonym for Saleem Ahmed, A Pakistani-born British writer. The son of Fatima Aziz and Shammim Ahmad, he was born and educated in Pakistan and lived in Kenya, Canada and the USA before moving to Britain where he lived until his death in December 2017.
