Salt and Saffron

Beschreibung

_______________<BR><BR>'Beautifully written in cunning, punning, glancing prose' - Independent<BR><BR>'A whirlwind . Owes plenty to Salman Rushdie and some to Hollywood . Exuberant, knowingly exotic and deceptively serious' - Guardian<BR><BR>'Kamila Shamsie has created a rich, bright world' - Times Literary Supplement<BR>_______________<BR><BR>Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land.<BR><BR>Aliya finds herself constantly enraptured by her family's unsettling legends.

These are troublesome stories, tinged by the Dard-e-Dil's fear that they are cursed by their 'not-quite' twins. As she becomes romantically intertwined with a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Aliya begins to see links between herself and her scandalous aunt Mariam, which may spell her undoing.<BR><BR>A tale of family lore, secrets and forbidden love, Salt and Saffron is an awe-inspiring novel written with compassion, wryness and glittering prose.<BR>_______________<BR><BR>'A funny, clever and romantic story' - Barbara Trapido<BR><BR>'The stories within the stories describe Pakistani society, its peoples and its mores, better than anything that has come from the Other Side for a long time.

This is a good read' - India Today

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