After losing his bank job in Lahore, Daru Shezad slides into drug use, petty crime, and an affair with Mumtaz, the wife of his wealthy best friend Ozi.
Books mentioned in Moth Smoke (2)
Kim by Rudyard Kipling: “"He's had a colorful past. Kind of like Kim." "Kipling's Kim?" I nod.”
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway: “When they gave me the baby, I thought of A Farewell to Arms, because it did look like a skinned rabbit with a wrinkled old man's face.”