India, June 20 -- In A Tilt in Time, Qurratulain Hyder brings her singular vision to a restless, formative decade in Pakistan, shaped by Partition and its aftermath. Drawn from Parts 12 to 15 of her monumental Kar-e Jahan Daraz Hai, this volume recounts her experiences in Delhi, Lahore, Karachi, Dhaka and London. Hyder described this sweeping work as a "biographical non-fiction novel". It offers an intimate social history of Pakistan in the 1950s, before the advent of martial law, peppered with her characteristic wit and wry observations. A writer, observer, traveller, Hyder stands at the centre of her story, at once witness and participant, mapping a life shaped by migration, work and the shifting cultural worlds of mid-century South Asia. As memory folds into narrative, the personal and political become inseparable, illuminating a world in transition....