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 BOOKS WRITTEN BY ME

 

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The Unkind Places

ISBN -13: 979-8866469970
Imprint: Independently published (Kindle Direct Publishing)
202 pages
Genre: Fiction
Published:
2023

Salvatore Russo, a moderately wealthy pasta manufacturer in Sicily, is trying to save his struggling business until a tragedy befalls him and his wife Imelda. As Caderina, the janitor at his Sardinian apartment becomes the temporary caretaker of his business, until Leonardo, his son, passes university, seismic shifts in the story occur, and other idealistic, mysterious and brutal characters begin to emerge in myriad locations of Italy, who reflect the fault lines and manifestations of a dystopian world, illustrating coarse parables of betrayals, inception of cultural troubles, unfolding of migrant crises and involvement of local crime syndicates.
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Global Chronicles

ISBN -13: 979-8623667700
Imprint: Independently published (Kindle Direct Publishing)
315 pages
Genre: Essays
Published:
2021


Essays on politics and other themes
Global Perspectives

ISBN -13: 979-8623667700
Imprint: Independently published (Kindle Direct Publishing)
315 pages
Genre: Essays
Published:
2020


A collection of essays on China's economic expansionism, global ISIS radicalism, international foreign policy analysis, and recent political developments in Afghanistan & Pakistan.
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The Vale Dweller

ISBN -13: 9781694769428

Imprint: Independently published (Kindle Direct Publishing)
213 pages
Genre: Faction
Published:
2019

Vale Dweller is a simplistic young man having grown up in the suburbs of Srinagar. He is close friends with the Reader, an editor of published works and an ex-salesman. Will their paths coalesce as they chase their material dreams? In his struggles and impulse for memory, the Vale Dweller becomes retrospective of his identity, as he observes the city and interacts with other coteries in his neighbourhood – an acclaimed Kashmir University professor, a jailbird, an old nostalgic writer, a networking bookseller, and a Columnist writing about the feudal past. Due to circumstances, he also meets a Weaver who tries to confront his past after surviving a massacre. After these associations, will he embrace the cultural epochs of the city, and call the place his own, or will he resist its fallacies stemmed out of social ills and political sensitivities? As fate endures itself, will the Vale Dweller pacify with it at the end as events unravel?
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Reflections on the Changing World
 

ISBN-13: 9781077576490

Imprint: Independently published (Kindle Direct Publishing)

485 pages

Genre: Essays

Published: 2019

 

Essays on the recently concluded world elections, pertaining war zones, international politics, recent brooding protests against nation states, unremembered historical perspectives, and pertaining environmental issues.

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The Trader of War Stories
 

ISBN-13: 978-1984210524

Imprint: Independently published (Kindle Direct Publishing)

324 pages

Genre: Faction

Published: 2018

 

War has emotionally worn out Matteo Castello, a lionised British Italian journalist who has reported from Bosnia and Chechnya during his early days, after being tasked by an uncompromising London-based editor working in an ever-competitive media industry. After eventually settling for his work location in Beirut, Matteo makes a social clique of local journalists there. For his enduring odyssey in making assignments, his life is made easy when he meets an Iraqi landlord Zouheir, a British documentary maker Brian Hedges based in Colombo and his Egyptian fixer, Ismail. But, he begins to loathe the world order that romanticises war after learning about the life of a disenchanted CIA agent Samantha Bethen, and an exiled Beirut-based Palestinian professor Mustafa Hamdeh. The meetings with a tragedy-laden Palestinian art curator, and Yaqub, a Kashmir-based saffron spice seller, makes him even firmer in his belief, as he progresses in life, thereby becoming high-minded.

As family bonds remain largely absent in his life, the price of his absence is paid by his son Stefano, a gifted footballer disillusioned by British society and his wife Roberta, a prolific novelist and a loner. In all this, there are echoes of flashbacks about Italy, their beloved homeland once ravaged by war and social destitution that made them immigrate like many others. As Matteo returns to London on a final transfer order, will his esteemed career progress smoothly as he anticipates it to? And will he fix the loose ends of separation with his son, wife and relatives back in Italy?

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Musings on Global Politics
 

ISBN-13: 978-1984209979

Imprint: Independently published (Kindle Direct Publishing)

299 pages

Genre: Essays

Published: 2018

 

A collection of selected newspaper columns, and other political essays, about the provoking influence of global politics in our modern world.

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Corporate Social Responsibility in UK Supermarket Industry

 

ISBN-13: 978-1985565487

Imprint: Independently published (Kindle Direct Publishing)

124 pages

Genre: Academic paper

Published: 2018

 

A concise investigation into CSR strategies implemented by leading British supermarket chains.

 

The companies researched for this industry-specific project are Asda, Sainsbury's, Waitrose and Tesco.

 

The research rejects the capitalist approach, and affirms a relationship, between businesses and societies. 

© Naveed Qazi.

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