# The Wish Maker

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- Book: [The Wish Maker](https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-sethi/the-wish-maker) ([The Wish Maker.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-sethi/the-wish-maker.md))
- Authors: [Ali Sethi](https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-sethi)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4103-710-3
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2010-06-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Zaki has returned home to Pakistan . . . His childhood friend and cousin Samar is getting married, and he's come to wish her happiness for the future. But returning to the family home in Lahore - crammed as it is with relatives - Zaki is confronted vividly with the past that has shaped not only his and his cousin's lives, but also those of his extended family. The Wishmaker is a sweeping, powerful epic that stretches back into the past of a troubled family in a troubled country, finding the roots of today's struggles in the lives and events that shaped yesterday . . .