Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi. Their parents were even once engaged to each others' partners until they rematched in what they call "the fiancee swap." But as adolescence distances the friends, Karim takes refuge in maps while Raheen searches fo[...]
The Dard-e-Dils are known for their clavicles and love of stories. The family is cursed by its not-quite twins, and Aliya, prey to her family's legends, begins to believe that she is another 'not-quite twin', cosmically connected with her aunt Mariam in a way that hardly bodes well.[...]
Fourteen years ago Aasmaani's mother Samina, a blazing beauty and fearless activist, walked out of her house and was never seen again. Aasmaani refuses to believe she is dead and still dreams of her glorious return. Now grown up and living in Karachi, Aasmaani receives what could be the longed-for p[...]
In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantanamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders. August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimon[...]
Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white.[...]
July 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land, surrounded by figs and cypresses. Soon she will discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and the ecstasy of love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning a[...]
Summer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army. Summer, 1915. Viv has[...]
In recent years, countless politicians and commentators have been addressing the Quran in an attempt to understand the rise of Muslim extremist ideology. They have missed the point: the most significant factor in this phenomenon is to be found within the particular circumstances of individual nation[...]
A kaleidoscopic masterpiece of empire and rebellion by Kamila Shamsie, the Orange Prize shortlisted and "Granta" Best of Young British Novelist
In the summer of 1914 a young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer, finds herself fulfilling a dream by joining an archeological dig in Turkey. Working alo[...]
Internasjonal boksuksess. Hovedbok i Bokklubben Nye Bøker. Tildelt prestisjetunge Orange Prize of Fiction. Hiroko Tanaka står på en veranda i Nagasaki. Det er den 9. august 1945, hun er 21 år gammel og dypt forelsket i mannen hun skal gifte seg med, Konrad Weiss. Plutselig blir verden hvit foran[...]
Nuori Hiroko Tanaka menettää rakkaansa yhdessä häikäisevässä valonvälähdyksessä. Hänelle jää Nagasakin atomipommin jäljiltä vain linnunmuotoiset arvet selkään.Hiroko lähtee Delhiin etsimään uutta alkua kuolleen kihlattunsa Konradin yläluokkaisen perheen luota. Hän löytää yll[...]
Sydänystäviksi syntyneet Karim ja Raheen täydentävät toistensa lauseita, puhuvat anagrammein ja nukkuvat nikama nikamaa vasten. Kuin sisko ja veli he ovat erottamattomasti sidoksissa toisiinsa ja Karachiin, kaupunkiin joka on väkivaltainen, likainen, korruptoitunut, elävä, rohkea ja ennen ka[...]
Nuori Hiroko Tanaka menettää rakkaansa yhdessä häikäisevässä valonvälähdyksessä. Hänelle jää Nagasakin atomipommin jäljiltä vain linnunmuotoiset arvet selkään.Hiroko lähtee Delhiin etsimään uutta alkua kuolleen kihlattunsa Konradin yläluokkaisen perheen luota. Hän löytää yll[...]
Sydänystäviksi syntyneet Karim ja Raheen täydentävät toistensa lauseita, puhuvat anagrammein ja nukkuvat nikama nikamaa vasten. Kuin sisko ja veli he ovat erottamattomasti sidoksissa toisiinsa ja Karachiin, kaupunkiin joka on väkivaltainen, likainen, korruptoitunut, elävä, rohkea ja ennen ka[...]
9 August, 1945, Nagasaki: Hiroko Tanaka, twenty-one and in love with Konrad Weiss, the man she is about to marry, steps out onto her veranda, minutes before a nuclear explosion shatters her world and everything in it. Travelling to Delhi two years later in search of new beginnings, she meets Konrad'[...]