When Zaki Shirazi arrives back in Lahore, Pakistan, to celebrate the wedding of his childhood friend Samar Api (who has finally, it seems, found her Amitabh - a stand-in for the Bollywood star she always dreamed of marrying), he can't help but revisit their intertwined journeys from youth to adulthood. An exhilarating novel of love, friendship, politics and family ties, set against the turbulent background of modern Pakistan