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Amar Bail (English: Mistletoe) is a love story of Umar Jehangir and Aleezay Sikandar, set-up in the backdrop of Pakistani bureaucratic culture. It is a story of imbalanced relationships, broken families, lust for power, complexes, insecurities and amidst all problems of love, its intensity and sacrifices. It depicts the true face of our bureaucratic system, highlighting so..more
Published 2014 by Ilm-o-Irfan (first published March 2000)
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Rabeea Asifthis is the best book. you must give it a try. you will definitely fall in love with the main lead. you will laugh and cry for him as well as with…morethis is the best book. you must give it a try. you will definitely fall in love with the main lead. you will laugh and cry for him as well as with him. Amarbail is so close to my heart I can't even tell you how nicely this masterpiece is written.(less)
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Aug 03, 2014Nazish Islam rated it it was amazing
I have seriously no words for this piece. A corrupt bureaucrat system, social evils, nepotism, family oriented favours, broken families, A divorce in almost every family and wrong doings are amazingly portrayed in this novel. But, on the other side, A sacrificed love, an eternal wish of let your love happy forever, knows his weaknesses, a kind heart and storm of Silent feelings emerged from the other side.
Umer made Aleezah a mature, sensible and successful girl. I wish they both could led a hap..more
A story which will be close to my soul in all eternity!
Apr 05, 2013Ali rated it it was amazing
The thing I liked about this book was its basis were not on romance/love, that's just a side plot. Umera Ahmed has brilliantly focused and conveyed the social , bureaucratic , political problems of pakistan. I really liked it.
Apr 09, 2016
Ayesha rated it
liked it Shelves: urdu, contemporary, 2016
I remember the time in eighth standard when everyone was gushing and crying buckets over Amar Bail and there was a constant fight in the school library . Everybody read it and obviously everybody loved,cried buckets over it and fell unconditionally,irrevocably in love with Umer Jehengir . Except me, because I used to be a snob and read Anna Karenina in those days. Well, Anna Karenina and Amarbail are written on the same line. How we are powerless about the people we love.
*eyeroll*
*facepalm*
*ts..more
There are some novels which we love no matter how much we hate it's ending, Amar Bail is one such novel.
It has brought the definition of 'love' to a whole new platform.No matter how much I hate Umar Jahangir for the choices he made,he made me realize that when we love someone truly we have to think about what's best for that person over what is best for us.I think I haven't read any story which had a hero who was so selfless that he would prefer someone else for the girl he loves because he knew..more
Honestly I was ripped into two halves after I read this book.The only book which will always remain close to my Heart and Soul.I just can't get over the male protagonist Omer Jahangir.<3 <3
My first and last Urdu novel. The pain was unbearable. I'll never forget Omer! The main female character was a bit hollow, needed more depth and a clearer pov.
What happened to aliza after she went out of the room in the last chapter?
Junaid said that he wanted to carry the promise he had given to his friend but aliza didn't answered him. Nor did she said a no. The end was tragic the girl who was already so hurt and always felt like an unwanted child shouldn't have deserved this. That the man she loved died. The end was weak like written in haste because the story extends in some chapters without a cause.It was a lazy story in the beginning. Then it's t..more
Nov 18, 2015
Javeria rated it
it was amazing Shelves: the-english-translation, blocks-that-broke-my-heart, favourites
Amar Bail a love story between Umar Jehangir and Aleezay Sikandar, two broken souls from problematic families whose journeys are intertwined. Umar is the son of a corrupt bureaucrat who uses him for his own personal gain, tries to distant himself from his father by returning to Pakistan. However, there is only so much he can do, despite the control he tries to free himself. Aleezay is an only child from a broken home, forced to live with her maternal grandparents because her parent’s ‘new’ lives..more
Mar 06, 2015
Haleema sadia rated it
it was amazing Shelves: eternal-favourite, biased-me, wept-for-ages
Ok its been a long time since I read this great piece of UA . This was my second book of her and I fell in love with it from the start..
Now its been 4 years and I have read it many times since then.
Many of its incidents are in my memory forever ..the thing is that this book gives us an insight over the lives of our elite class as well.as the those who run our government.it clearly and beautifully depicted the beaurocratic lives personal as well public..
Now coming towards the characters UA..more
Sep 22, 2014Muhammad Bin khalid rated it it was amazing
So, this is one book of its kind. Umera Ahmed, as usual, has written a masterpiece. Very few characters, but they leave such a long lasting effect on your heart. Umera makes you fall in love with her characters. Spellbound and speechless. 5 stars because that's the maximum.
this is a very brilliant book,written in a very good way.
the book reveals about the beurocratic system of pakistan and their lives.this system is like a 'bail' which cannot cut itself .
heart touching story.after peer-e-kamil awsum novel i have read.but its end must be changed.its vry vry sad.=(
Nov 03, 2012Ambreen Abbasi rated it it was amazing
te preface says it all can't help falling in love with that one character
Sep 14, 2010Ramsha gulzar rated it it was amazing
its an awwsummm book it jus made me cry n i had cried alot while reading this..:(:(:(
I lovE thE waY UMERA peRceiVe d thiNgs and EveNts...AmaR BaiL provides the reader not with a single lesson but a lot.....
Muhabat amarbail hy.. Maar deti hy yaa khud mar jati hy.
Dec 26, 2016Bismaa Omer rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Words cannot describe the beauty of this book! Umera Ahmed can never fail to impress her readers. About 700 pages long and almost every chapter was jaw dropping. This book is an eye opening read for individuals like us. I felt like Aleezay's character was portrayerd as us, commoners like us who know nothing of the bureaucrats. Amar Bail is no ordinary book even though the ending was sad and made me cry buckets of tears it definitely touches your soul and eventually just like Aleezay you realize..more
Love it to bits and pieces. From the very first to the very last page i was overwhelmed. It was like riding a emotional roller coaster, and the ending gave me so much pain that i would never dare to read it again but this story is never going to cut and run from me, felt like a reality. The protagonist Umer Jehangir: is an unbeatable character in full literature !!
ہم کہ دشتِ جہاں کو آباد کیے بیٹھے ہیں
آرزوئے یار کو اب خاک کیے بیٹھے ہیں
خواب کے تار سے خواہش کو رفو کرتے
دامنِ دل کو اب چاک کیے بیٹھ..more
Nov 26, 2013
Mariya Kamran rated it
it was amazingRecommended to Mariya by: Friends & Family
Amar Bail was awesome. Aleeza & Umar have become my fav couple. The story was gripping and filled with a mixture of emotions. Loving it! Reading Again & Again! Umera Ahmed is now in my fav list. One thing that really wanted from ths novel was a happy ending, everything does not have to be over on death, corruption will continue! Painful Ending but still loving it! Something for everyone to read! Need to own a copy!!!
a really well-written piece ov writing from umera Ahmed. though: i heard more praises about peer-kamil Ov this writer - but will olvays prefer this one over any book Ov umera ahmed. Valentino rossi girlfriend 2016. *experienced a lot ov feelings while reading this book!* Too numb to write any review.
The sad part when you understand Author's foreword and knowing all odds still fall for them and as the foreword said 'lets repeat the mistake again'..and unintentionlly i did too.
Apr 12, 2014Madiha J Bookblogger rated it it was amazing
Aug 13, 2017SA Dar rated it it was ok · review of another edition
I think Aleezah and Umar the two most stupidest lovers in the world. Same as Romeo and Juliet. The only reason for the whole fiasco was lack of communication in Romeo and Juliet's . And it wasn't lack of communication here. Aleezah told him straightforward how she felt. Unabashed without reserve. He had absolutely no excuse. Working in a corrupt civil service and blah blah blah. No excuse. Both of them were scarred and timid. Umar was a weak man. First afraid of his father, then afraid of uncle..more
Umera Ahmed, what can I say about her? She’s literally my favourite Pakistani author. I mean, I’ve read only two novels, of her and I already love her writing style. Too bad, here we don’t have her novels . But today it’s not about why I like her. It’s my review on her book and why I love it.
So this book is about Umar and Aleezay’s love story, well it was one sided first and then yeah, pretty much like the others. But the main thing doesn’t lie on romance. It matters on real issue, the issue I..more
May 17, 2017Sahuna Imran rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I loved the book. Umera Ahmed is one of my favourite authors I love her work. The facts stated in this book about the Politicians and Bureaucrats are not new to the public but the way she has put them to form a story is commendable. Common people of my country usually speak ill about these people but through this book she has given a complete different perspective to judge them. I loved the character of Umar but to be very honest I did not like Aleezeh's character. In her books the female protag..more
Umera Ahmad is the emerging and popular weiter in Urdu litreature she started writing in 1998 and now almost 35 novels has been complied by her some of them became very famous like Peer e Kamil,Aab e Hayat, and now she is considered as notable Urdu novelist.is a set of all the novels present. Her Novels used to publish in monthly digest. The writer holds a great repute owing to a vast readership especially in the youth of Pakistan. Her novels and stories are even projected on TV dramas and they..more
I read this novel 4th time but still can't accept the umer's death.em requesting to umaira Ahmed plz change the end its very painful.apne Salaar ko bhi tau peer e kamil ma zinda rekha Umer ko bhi kr den sequel ma plz.any novel cannot compete this novel it is outstanding ..
Mar 06, 2018Shehzeen Muzaffar rated it really liked it
I am speechless right now. The last part of the book made me cry like a baby. I am still crying and its freakin hurts.
During the start of this novel It was really slow and nit much was happeninh but after some 100 pages it picked up its pace and well it broke my freakin heart💔
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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.
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