Aamer Hussein, who was born in Karachi, is the author of five collections of short stories including Mirror to the Sun (1993), a novella, Another Gulmohar Tree (2009), and a novel, The Cloud Messenger (2011).
Desert, white sand rippling, reddish sky. A figure, on a white horse, head wrapped in a scarf and covered in a hat, wearing an assortment of Western clothes: boots, jodhpurs, a short jacket.