Kamila Shamsie

• Oct-2022
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"A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces." -- Madeline Miller "A shining tour de force about a long friendship's respects, disrespects, loyalties and moralities." -- Ali Smith From the acclaimed author of Home Fire, the moving and s...

• Oct-2020
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On the farm, some eggs are hatching. A flock of sweet ducklings are popping out but one duckling looks different from all the others.Kamila Shamsie retells The Ugly Duckling with great empathy and a warm heart. Cast out and all alone, the odd ducklin...

• Aug-2017
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The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she's accepted...

• Aug-2014
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In the summer of 1914 a young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer, joins an archaeological dig in Turkey, fulfilling a long-held dream. Working alongside Germans and Turks, she falls in love with archaeologist Tahsin Bey and joins him in his quest to f...

• May-2009
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Beginning on August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, and ending in a prison cell in the US in 2002, as a man is waiting to be sent to Guantanamo Bay, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of love and betrayal. Hiroko Tanaka is twenty-one and in love with the m...

• Jun-2005
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A Pakistani woman finds a new clue to her mother's long-ago disappearance in this "thoroughly captivating"novel by the award-winning author of Home Fire (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).   Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activi...

• Jul-2004
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Hasan is eleven years old. He loves cricket, pomegranates, the night sky, his clever, vibrant artistic mother and his etymologically obsessed lawyer father, and he adores his next-door neighbour Zehra. One early summer morning, while lazing happily o...

• Jun-2003
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A "gorgeous novel" of two upper-class Pakistani families and the complicated love that develops between their children, by the author of Home Fire (Los Angeles Times). Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class K...

• Sep-2000
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Aliya may not have inherited her family's patrician looks, but she is as much a prey to the legends of her family that stretch back to the days of Timur Lang. Aristocratic and eccentric-the clan has plenty of stories to tell, and secrets to hide....