'Pieces of a paki' is the debut novel of Y.Misdaq a.k.a. Yoshi and is being published under his real name, Yusuf Misdaq, by Nefisa UK in association with the University of Sussex press. It is set in a near-future Britain and was featured briefly in the March edition of Emel magazine It is listed on Amazon as being, "A coming-of-age and Utopian/Dystopian novel rolled into one." British reviewers compared it favourably to Orwell's 1984 and Roald Dahl's Matilda, which underscore the genre-bending elements within the book. When asked by the Radical Middle way in 2011 what had originally inspired the book, Misdaq responded simply, "Losing out in love, travelling; wanting to write a book, not wanting to fail at that." The novel also predicted the creation of modified 'vitamin water,' which has, less than a decade later, come into the market.