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FICTION · POETRY · REFLECTIONS
Stories are stardust. They never end.
Enter the world of Syed Rizwan through stories of memory, history, magical realism, and the extraordinary lives of ordinary people.
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Memories of the Setting Sun
Six stories of memory, loss, and the fragile passage of time.
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Memories of the
Setting Sun
Six lives. Six thresholds. The long shadow of memory.
In these stories, people stand at the edge of transformation: an old man mourning the love of his life, a woman caught between memory and oblivion, a recent widow shaped by poverty and social prejudice, a child confronting the bewildering world of adults, and others marked by longing, sacrifice, cruelty, and hope.
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Books by Syed Rizwan
Fiction rooted in atmosphere, human contradictions, and the lives we carry after the moment has passed.
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Literature never fails to enchant readers who are always ready to get blown away by the extraordinariness of the ordinary magic and the spells of ordinary places that become extraordinary.
— from the author’s notebook
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Notes from the writing desk
Essays and articles on literature, craft and the books that stay with us.
Poetry
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Poems of love, loss, resistance, longing, and the contradictions of human mind. Each poem is available in Devanagari and Roman script.
Nazm | 1947
Read Poem ↗Ghazal | Chaand taaron ne siskiyaan li hai
Read Poem ↗Nazm | Self Portrait
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About the author
Syed Rizwan
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Poet
Syed Rizwan writes fiction in English and poetry in Urdu and Hindi. His work is interested in memory, magical realism, alienation, social prejudice, history, and ordinary people and their extraordinary journeys.
He holds a Master’s degree in English Literature and began writing short fiction in English in 2021. His books include Heaven Under the Rubble, Memories of the Setting Sun, and Zeena Zeena Utar Rahi Hai Raat, a collection of poetry in Urdu and Hindi.
Biography & enquiries ↗From my desk to your shelf
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Memories of the Setting Sun
Signed paperback
₹399 including shipping within India.
Contact
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