From the prize-winning British-Pakistani author of The Holy Woman, Typhoon, A Pair of Jeans and Revolt comes this dazzling new collection of a dozen stories, set on four continents and at different periods in history. As ever, the author focuses on the drama of human relationships, played out against various scenarios: the daily struggles for survival of Jews in a Polish concentration camp; the selling of slaves in 18th-century Boston; the tragedies of the partition of India and Pakistan; modern-day friendships in Abu Dhabi, and the fatal jealousy of an Inca concubine and a Spanish wife in 16th -century Peru.In The Concubine and the Slave-Catcher, Qaisra Shahraz captures and enriches us with her wisdom and storytelling magic.