Maut Ki Kitab (Novel)

In the main character of the novel, insomnia, horror, madness, sexuality, epilepsy, syphilis and leprosy and madness are all gathered. His mother is belonging to singing community, a lustful father from a landed family, who is forced to live away from home after marriage and believes that his son is the result of his wife's illicit affair with a runaway soldier. The main character is first subjected to public violence when he is seen making sexual gestures to a slightly older girl, from his rooftop. Since childhood, father and son are bound by the chain of hatred, the son wants to kill the father. In these situations, after a quarrel, the mother disappears, the father's attitude towards the son changes, but not much. When diseases and misbehavior increased, marriage was the solution after drugs and gangsters, when nothing changed, they were sent to an insane asylum where they were treated with electric shocks. It is only after this that the prenatal scene is revealed to him, which is when he was eight months old in his mother's womb and was forced to have sexual pleasure by his father. The main character mentions suicide a lot but it is not suicide from beginning to end, he starts talking about killing his father from his childhood and even kills him once but in thought. He sees his mother for the last time at the soldiers' cemetery. But despite this, his attitude does not change from his father.

• | Author: Khalid Jawed
• | Publisher: Arshi Books
• | Publication Date: Jan 24, 2023
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: Urdu
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 9391037364
• | ISBN-13: 9789391037369