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Kamila Shamsie
Born
in Karachi, Pakistan
August 13, 1973
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Home Fire
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published
2017
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65 editions
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Burnt Shadows
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published
2009
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10 editions
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Kartography
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published
2001
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3 editions
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Best of Friends
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published
2022
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12 editions
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A God in Every Stone
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published
2014
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37 editions
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Broken Verses
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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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19 editions
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In the City by the Sea
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published
1998
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8 editions
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Duckling: A Fairy Tale Revolution
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published
2020
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5 editions
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Offence: The Muslim Case
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published
2009
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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
― Kartography
“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
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
“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
― Broken Verses
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| 100+ Books in 2023: Jennifer D's 2009 book list | 51 | 392 | Jan 04, 2010 07:32PM | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Anisfield-Wolf Book Prizes for Elizabeth Alexander and Kamila Shamsie | 2 | 23 | Jun 25, 2010 12:01AM | |
| UK Book Club: Top 20 Young British Writers | 23 | 220 | Sep 23, 2010 07:42AM | |
| Chicks On Lit: Favorite Book of 2010........so far????? | 243 | 829 | Dec 17, 2010 08:06AM | |
| The Seasonal Read...: 30.10 - Jennifer N's task: In Honor of Asian Authors | 58 | 147 | Jan 24, 2011 09:45AM | |
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