WACT Book Club | June 2027

Suffer -Nama – Hamza Mirza (245 pages)

Suffer-nama by Hamza Mirza is a contemporary travel memoir shaped by humor, visa realities, family logistics, and the uneven comedy of moving through the world with limited time and a Pakistani passport. Rather than presenting travel as polished luxury or heroic conquest, the book focuses on missed buses, embassy waiting rooms, cultural surprises, family chaos, small discoveries, and the strange pleasures of imperfect journeys. It brings travel writing down from the mythic camel route and into the airports, queues, budgets, and human encounters of the present day.

A funny and observant travel memoir about the real adventure: surviving the journey with curiosity intact.

Author’s Biography

Hamza Mirza is described as a middle-class traveler from Pakistan who writes about travel with humor, honesty, and relatable chaos. Suffer-nama is listed as his first book.

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