I am not alone in not knowing what a hikayat was, but the Google tells me it's a story. There might be more to it than that, but this is a fun story to read. It's a nested story and is self-consciously a story, in that the setting is a storyteller entertaining tourists in Lahore. But there's much more to it than that. The way it weaves in and out is pretty cool, but some things come out of nowhere--the extremely gory sequences (content alert) are unexpected and almost like a jump scare. It's also an interesting take on how feminism works for a Pakistani author describing a male-dominated culture. In some places not very feminist at all. Overall I liked it though.
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