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Kamila Shamsie
Born
in Karachi, Pakistan
August 13, 1973
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Genre
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Home Fire
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published
2017
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3 editions
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Burnt Shadows
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published
2009
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62 editions
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Best of Friends
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published
2022
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21 editions
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Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
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published
2001
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37 editions
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A God in Every Stone
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published
2014
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36 editions
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Broken Verses: A Gripping Mother-Daughter Story of Political Activism, Crime, and Suspense in Modern-Day Pakistan
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published
2005
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27 editions
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Salt and Saffron
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published
2000
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21 editions
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In the City by the Sea
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published
1998
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13 editions
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Duckling: A Fairy Tale Revolution
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published
2020
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4 editions
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Offence: The Muslim Case (Manifestos for the 21st Century)
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published
2009
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6 editions
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“For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?”
― Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
― Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
“Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food.
I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his.”
― Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his.”
― Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
“There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.”
― Broken Verses: A Gripping Mother-Daughter Story of Political Activism, Crime, and Suspense in Modern-Day Pakistan
― Broken Verses: A Gripping Mother-Daughter Story of Political Activism, Crime, and Suspense in Modern-Day Pakistan
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