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Name of Book: A Deconstructed Heart Author: Shaheen Ashraf-Ahmed ISBN: 9781481062 Publisher: Amazon Type of book: Muslim Indian/Pakistani, relationships, independence, past vs present, England, ghosts, breaking down, hidden world vs real world Year it was published: 2012 Summary: Mirza is a middle-aged Indian college professor whose wife has left him. He moves out of his house into a tent in his back garden, where he sets up an outdoor classroom and serves tea to his kind but bewildered neighbors. He is visited by the irritable spirit of his long-dead teacher, Khan Sahib, who is befuddled by the dysfunctions of modern life. In the north of England, Mirza's niece, Amal, is finishing up her last year of college before she is expected to join her parents in their new home in India. Asked by her father to talk her uncle back into his senses, she moves into Mirza's house, and they soon are connected by their shared loneliness. She meets Rehan, Mirza's student,...