The Sin of Killing: The Dance of Changing Winds

by Jamaluddin Jamali

Our past is chasing us. We are on the run. It reaches everything with us. We can’t beat it. Nor can we argue with it. It is such a big monster.
The Sin of Killing: The Dance of Changing Winds takes you inside Pakistan, into its hidden backyard, into the soul of the society and its culture, family system. It shows how people here fall in love and spend some time with their lovers feeling its feel before getting married to someone chosen by their families, and how sometimes divorced women or young widows get locked up in the open-air prisons of the society with limited chances of escape, and how lovers are killed by the families only for being lovers.
Young and beautiful Salma is celebrating the fifth birthday of her daughter in Lahore. Her husband looks a little upset because of something, even then everything appears fine until a mad moment comes and everything ends. Now she is in America with her daughter. Her nephew, Ahsen, is waiting for her return. He has news for her which can stop her heartbeat. Battling with the hidden past of his family, he wonders whether it will be right or wrong to give her the news. He loves her. She is his good second mother. His Aunt. He has been protecting her happiness by keeping her in the dark about a few things linked to her past. He has been battling with his family’s legacy all alone. He loves his ex-classmate and wants to marry her. But now a blast has exploded his secret substructure, and everything is scattered around him, even his love. On the heap of so many things. Like questions. Nothing is in place anymore. The girl whom he loved has gone. She has become a memory. Light has gone from his life. Darkness has covered him from all sides like a blanket. The sins of his family have become his sins and he can’t even say that he has nothing to do with anything. He has been the silent partner in the crimes committed by his elders. A tale of mismatched stars, finding new stars for living their lives, taking new start again and again. For happiness or escape. A tale of love, loyalty, betrayal, redemption, and new beginnings. It is literary fiction.

252 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 25, 2016

About the author

Jamaluddin Jamali is a journalist and writer. He writes crossover book club, literary fiction and his stories take you inside the darkest chambers of human heart and mind, deep into the house of desires and fears, the parts of human nature which are universal, such as love and fear, bliss and sorrow, happiness and grief, hope and depression, light and darkness. His stories may take you into very dark rabbit holes miles away from hope, but then bring you back to new beginning and hope, for hope is always there, even when it doesn't seem to be there, like a new morning or a new day that is always there, waiting behind some invisible corner, waiting for the right moment to come and fill your heart with hope again. Like a new partner who asks you to forget the past, take a new start and smile again, and then again. Keep smiling. For that is life. A smile just. At the end of the day. A smile that you want to remember.
The Sin of Killing: The Dance of Changing Winds is his debut novel. The Baby Who Brought The Storm is his second Book. He is working on his new book, a psychological fiction with a female protagonist. He lives in Lahore with his wife and four children and works as a reporter for a media house, City News Network, City42 news and 24 news. Previously, he has worked for three English newspapers: The Nation, The Post and Pakistan Today. He has a master's degree in English Literature and loves being close to nature. He loves animals, all of them, being manifestations of nature.

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