Broken Verses - Couverture souple

Shamsie, Kamila

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0747578931 ISBN 13 : 9780747578932

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2006

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

PRAISE FOR BROKEN VERSES

"[Shamsie] packs her story with the playful evidence of her high-flying intelligence." —San Francisco Chronicle

"This 30-year-old has been described as a young Anita Desai, and her third book, about childhood, love, life and high society in Karachi during the turbulent 1990s, is worth all the prepublication fuss." —Harper's Bazaar

"A fresh literary look at modern-day Pakistan...[a] beautiful meditation on love, forgiveness, and letting go." —Entertainment Weekly

"Richly woven...There is a succulent pleasure to the narrative that draws you happily to its end." —The Guardian

"This is also a story about parents and children, about Aasmaani trying to make peace with her strange childhood. It is a story about love, as Aasmaani and Shehnaz's son find themselves drawn to each other. And there's politics, to boot. The political backdrop-criticism of America, anxiety about the role of fundamentalists in Pakistani government-remains just that, a backdrop; it never overshadows, but rather somehow expands, the story...A thoroughly captivating tale." —Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"Intriguing, shimmeringly intelligent...Shamsie's crowning triumph." —Publishers Weekly

Présentation de l'éditeur

Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's greatest poet, was beaten to death by government thugs. In present-day Karachi, her daughter Aasmaani has just discovered a letter in the couple's private code-a letter that could only have been written recently.

Aasmaani is thirty, single, drifting from job to job. Always left behind whenever Samina followed the Poet into exile, she had assumed that her mother's disappearance was simply another abandonment. Then, while working at Pakistan's first independent TV station, Aasmaani runs into an old friend of Samina's who gives her the first letter, then many more. Where could the letters have come from? And will they lead her to her mother?

Merging the personal with the political, Broken Verses is at once a sharp, thrilling journey through modern-day Pakistan, a carefully coded mystery, and an intimate mother-daughter story that asks how we forgive a mother who leaves.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0747578931
• ISBN 13: 9780747578932
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352