Kamila Shamsie on returning to Karachi, plus Henning Mankell, Leila Abouela, Roma Tearne, Patrick French and James Kelman. Tishani Doshi dreams a beautiful death and Gandhi offers marriage advice.
More fiction than non. David Shields, Helen Oyeyemi, Jonathan Coe, B.S. Johnson, Shane Jones, Rainer Maria Rilke, Philip Langeskov and Daniel Kehlmann. And a report on the booksellers of Saigon.