01139nam a22001697a 4500 0 20260604121318.0 9780143472049 RAF Z Rafiq, Zahid 20165 World with its mouth open Gurugram Penguin Random House 2025 177p. In eleven stories, The World With Its Mouth Open maps the inner lives of the people of Kashmir as they walk the uncertain terrain of their days, fractured from years of war. From a shopkeeper’s encounter with a mannequin, to an expectant mother walking on a precarious road, to a young boy wavering between dreams and reality, to two dogs wandering the city, these stories weave in larger, devastating themes of loss, grief, violence, longing, and injustice with the threads of smaller, everyday realities that confront the characters’ lives in profound ways. Although the stories circle the darker aspects of life, they are―at the same time―an attempt to run into life, into humor, into beauty, into another person who can offer refuge, if momentarily. Fiction 20166 B 0 0 0 0 LBSNAA LBSNAA 2026-06-04 499.00 0 RAF Z 186056 2026-06-04 2026-06-04 B 361318 361318