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Of Babies and Butchery: Dur e Aziz Amina's 'You Get What Is Yours' is one of the better Salam Award winners

Of Stories and Staleness: Nihal Ijaz Khan's 'The Smokecense of Pluvistan' feels like squandered potential

Of Awards and Awkwardness: Kehkashan Khalid's 'The Puppetmaster' lacks cohesion and proper editing

Of Prizes and Pointlessness: Firuza Pastakia's 'The Universe is a Conscientious Garden' is pretty underwhelming as an award winner

Of Honour and Heights: Maham Javaid's 'The Tallest Woman' is a worthy winner of the Zeenat Haroon Rashid Prize

Of Arranged Marriages and Young Love: Aisha Saeed's 'Written In The Stars' tackles a lot of important things

Of Greek Plays and Smart Writing: Kamila Shamsia's 'Home Fire' might be the Pakistani book of the year

Of Magic and Mayhem: Usman T Malik's 'The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn' is all sorts of wacko

Of Identity Politics and War: Uzma Aslam Khan's 'Thinner Than Skin' is really, really boring