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When the fireflies dance – Hassan Aisha – Foreigner – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-389-30669-1

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Since childhood, Lallu has dreamed of freeing his family from debt slavery in a bhatti brick factory in Lahore, where his parents, like many others in Pakistan, struggle to repay an exorbitant, ever-growing debt passed down from generation to generation. After the tragic death of his older brother, he takes a job as a driver for a wealthy family to make ends meet. But when his father falls ill and his sister gets married, money becomes desperately short. To save his family, Lallu is willing to do anything: from humiliating requests to blackmail and theft.

The novel exposes the rotten underbelly of a society where the caste system and corruption at every level turn the lives of the poor into a death trap.
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