Goodbye Freddie Mercury by Nadia Akbar: Partying while Lahore burns
In Goodbye Freddie Mercury, author Nadia Akbar's heart is in the interminable descriptions of parties that bloat this slight novel to over 300 pages but no witty banter makes up for the essential hatefulness of her characters
Nadia Akbar's debut novel, Goodbye Freddie Mercury, has been met by whoops and hosannas from breathless reviewers apparently unable to believe that feckless, rich, young(ish) Pakistanis swear, drink, take drugs, have sex (sometimes consensual, often exploitative), and have ambivalent feelings towards the cities of their birth.
Akbar is equally breathless, dazzled by her own irreverence,
