Dan Writes

  Ortzikara Ortzikara a novel Mausam ka naam nahi hai, tera naam hai. PROLOGUE My dad got married again when I was eight. The woman was his boss. They had argued about everything for three years before that. Case strategy. Billing practices. What to do with a client who kept missing calls. What biscuits to put in the break room tin. I was there for some of it. You want the full version or the short one. You said full. Fine. Few things to know upfront. My mum died when I was two. I don't remember her, not properly. I have photographs and what my dad told me and this one thing that might be a memory or might be something I built from the photographs. Her hands. She had small hands. That bit might be real. My dad is Rehan Javed. Financial lawyer. He works at Pemberton Hale in York, which is a regional firm that handles clients wealthy enough to want a York address and not wealthy enough to pay London rates. He's been there since before I was ...