Fatima Bhutto to come out with new novel in October

Pakistani author Fatima Bhutto will come out with her new book in October that deals with burning questions about modern Muslim identity in a world aflame with violence.

"The Runaways" has been billed by publisher Penguin Random House India as an explosive new work of fiction.

"Penguin India has been my home for the past 10 years and I am thrilled that my new novel - a book very close to my heart - will be published by them this October," says Bhutto, who has penned books like "Songs of Blood and Sword" and "The Shadow of the Crescent Moon".

Meru Gokhale, Editor-in-Chief (Literary Publishing) at Penguin Random House India, says Fatima's new novel does not shy away from disturbing truths about the world we live in today.

According to Ambar Sahil Chatterjee, commissioning editor at Penguin Random House India, "Fatima Bhutto's new novel is born out of very contemporary concerns, and her characters are absorbingly complex - from a young woman struggling to better her prospects to a young man tormented by homosexual urges he strives to suppress. Readers are going to be shocked and moved by what she has to say."