The Cloud Messenger

London that distant rainy place his father lived in once is where Mehran finds himself after leaving Karachi. And it is there that his adult life unfolds: he discovers the joys of poetry faces the trials of love and work and spends his dreaming hours 'sending cloud messages to other places'. A feeling of restlessness pursues Mehran as he travels to Italy India and Pakistan. But the relationships he forms - with wounded passionate Marvi volatile Marco and the enigmatic Riccarda - and his power of recollection finally bring him some sense however fleeting of belonging in this beautifully poignant paean to lost love.