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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 on the roof, Hasan watches a young boy flying a yellow kite fall to his death. Soon after, Hasan's idyllic, sheltered family life is shattered when his beloved uncle Salman, a dissenting politician, is arrested and charged with treason. Set in a land ruled by an oppresive military regime, this eloquent, charming and quietly political novel vividly recreates the confusing world of a young boy on the edge of adulthood, and beautifully illustrates the transformative power of the imagination.
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Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Pakistan. Her first novel IN THE CITY BY THE SEA, was published in 1998 and shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys / Mail on Sunday Prize. In 1999 she also received The Award for Literature in Pakistan and published her second novel SALT AND SAFFRON to critical acclaim. Kamila lives in London and Karachi.
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'Lively, playful, provocative' Anita Desai 'A touching and engrossing story ... an assured debut' The Times 'A colourful and peripatetic view of politics in Pakistan ... an interesting and promising novel' Guardian 'Full of fun, longing and wit ... a debut of spirit and imagination, loaded with intelligent charm' Ali Smith, Scotsman
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0747571643
- ISBN 13 9780747571643
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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