Sheniz Janmohamed is the author of the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist , which received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. A 2011 Man Booker Prize finalist, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a story of two strangers who find themselves on a plane journey from New York to Islamabad, Pakistan. When they land, their lives take very different paths; one, a terrorist planning to target American and British civilians; the other, an American businessman returning to his home in Lahore. Their paths will cross again when the businessman is forced to save the terrorist's life and so begins an extraordinary friendship that defies all expectations
What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing?Sheniz Janmohamed
With each measured step, we knowthis earth is only as solidas we are.Sheniz Janmohamed
Root yourself in this earthand it will root itself in you.Sheniz Janmohamed
Petals don't ask Where to land They just fall With grace.Sheniz Janmohamed
The child I wasis just one breath away from me.Sheniz Janmohamed
When the last leaf falls, what will die within us?Sheniz Janmohamed
