man-o-salwa / من و سلویٰ by Umera Ahmed Oh! the heart-wrenching story of Zainab and her revenge! This novel is more than a love story or a tale of heartbroken lover. Its a moral story about a poor man who earned halal for his family and taught the same to them. Its about the difference between halal and haram. Being patient and leading a halal life may make you suffer but the agonies of plotting revenge and the haram life will doom you to hell alive where you can neither die nor live. Umera Ahmed is one of the most widely-read and popular Urdu fiction novelist and screenplay writer of this era. She completed her Masters in English Literature from Murray College, Sialkot. Later she became an English language lecturer for the students of O and A levels at Army Public College, Sialkot. However she left the job a few years back in order to devote her full attention to writing. She began her writing career in 1998 at a quite young age. Her initial stories were published in monthly urdu digests and later came out in the form of books. She has written about 16 books , comprising of complete novels and compilations of short stories. However it was her novel “Peer-e-Kaamil (S.A.W.W)” which became her identity. Umera Ahmed novel man o salwa novel