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Dear Heart To Faiz in Prison 1951-1955
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November 1, 2025
heartachingly sweet, it reads as half autobiographical. can't help but admire her strength... a definite must read.
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July 29, 2023"Dear Heart"
An epistolary writing of Alys Faiz for her beloved Dear Heart Urf Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Dear Heart is the compilation of 3 years letters to Faiz Ahmed Faiz when he was accused in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy case.
Dear Heart is everyday conversation of a wife with her husband in which she shares every emotion, sorrow, ups-downs, rounds and squares of life. Dear Heart is not merely a conversation but it is the struggles, fights, intimidations, appreciations, hopes and expectations of a wife who never losses faith in keeping her relation and her husband alive in every second of her life.
Managing a household in Pakistan is not easy for a single woman. But Alys Faiz is not a common woman she is the wife of Faiz she knows how to handle turmoil with adventure, deep emotions with flattery and romance with Rebel.
Doing job, looking after home with two little girls was quite challenging but she was the fighter and she fought so magnificently and diligently and she won in it.
I enjoyed every little and specific detail of Alys' life that how she shares all those tiny points with her husband like a conversation between two intellectuals. As she is the strength of Faiz not only in managing his home and kids but also his financials. During the imprisonment Faiz wrote Naqshe Faryadi and all the matters of his publications were handled by Alys.
Though she was foreigner but when the two minds and hearts connect then Religion and identities do not matter. Alys Faiz came to Pakistan to see her Sister Chirstabel but due to World war II she had to stay in Pakistan. During her stay she met with Faiz and being two of them communits they fell for each other and got married in 1941. Alys also changed her name as Kulsoom. But she never needed to get recognised by that name. Her identity was never matter in their pure relationship.
Alys Faiz and Faiz Ahmed Faiz are the people who are connected by heart and soul. Their letters show their deep love and their intellect towards understanding the societal problems of Pakistan of that time. Their conversation is full of wisdom, every letter of their discourse is worth reading.
I wish I could have the replies of Faiz Sahab in this book but this book only contains the letters of Alys Faiz which are edited by Maryam Hassan.
#AlovableRead
Ratings: 9/10
An epistolary writing of Alys Faiz for her beloved Dear Heart Urf Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Dear Heart is the compilation of 3 years letters to Faiz Ahmed Faiz when he was accused in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy case.
Dear Heart is everyday conversation of a wife with her husband in which she shares every emotion, sorrow, ups-downs, rounds and squares of life. Dear Heart is not merely a conversation but it is the struggles, fights, intimidations, appreciations, hopes and expectations of a wife who never losses faith in keeping her relation and her husband alive in every second of her life.
Managing a household in Pakistan is not easy for a single woman. But Alys Faiz is not a common woman she is the wife of Faiz she knows how to handle turmoil with adventure, deep emotions with flattery and romance with Rebel.
Doing job, looking after home with two little girls was quite challenging but she was the fighter and she fought so magnificently and diligently and she won in it.
I enjoyed every little and specific detail of Alys' life that how she shares all those tiny points with her husband like a conversation between two intellectuals. As she is the strength of Faiz not only in managing his home and kids but also his financials. During the imprisonment Faiz wrote Naqshe Faryadi and all the matters of his publications were handled by Alys.
Though she was foreigner but when the two minds and hearts connect then Religion and identities do not matter. Alys Faiz came to Pakistan to see her Sister Chirstabel but due to World war II she had to stay in Pakistan. During her stay she met with Faiz and being two of them communits they fell for each other and got married in 1941. Alys also changed her name as Kulsoom. But she never needed to get recognised by that name. Her identity was never matter in their pure relationship.
Alys Faiz and Faiz Ahmed Faiz are the people who are connected by heart and soul. Their letters show their deep love and their intellect towards understanding the societal problems of Pakistan of that time. Their conversation is full of wisdom, every letter of their discourse is worth reading.
I wish I could have the replies of Faiz Sahab in this book but this book only contains the letters of Alys Faiz which are edited by Maryam Hassan.
#AlovableRead
Ratings: 9/10
August 16, 2022
A sad insight into the lives of Faiz's family and how deeply they suffered due to his arrest. Apart from the sad parts, there are also mentions of everyday little things that make them all so much more human.
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