Shehr-e-Zaat (novella)

"Shehr-e-Zaat"
Short story by Umera Ahmad
CountryPakistan
LanguageUrdu
Genre(s)Novella
Publication
Published inShuaa Digest
Publication typePeriodical
Book
Media typePrint
SeriesMain Ne Khawabon Ka Shajar Dekha Hai

Shehr-e-Zaat (Urdu: شہرذات ; lit: City of Self ) is a novella by Pakistani fiction writer Umera Ahmad published in 2002. A blog at the Express Tribune describes the story as a fictional story with an elements of spiritualism and philosophy.The story depicts the obsession of individuals with worldly life, forgetting their creator—a journey from self to

subsistence.