New Delhi, March 25 -- In The Sufi Storyteller, Faiqa Mansab crafts a narrative that operates simultaneously as a contemporary mystery and a metaphysical inquiry into the nature of story, memory, and healing. Set between the regulated stillness of an American liberal arts college and the expansive, memory-laden landscapes of Afghanistan, the novel follows Layla, a scholar of women's histories, and Mira, a Sufi storyteller burdened by a traumatic past. Yet beneath its narrative scaffolding lies a deeply layered engagement with Sufi philosophy, feminist epistemology, and South Asian traditions of storytelling as both spiritual practice and resistance.

Mansab's work can also be situated within a broader body of contemporary South Asian Angl...