Ausma Zehanat Khan
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The United Kingdom
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Influences
the great Ngaio Marsh, the awe-inspiring Amin Maalouf
Member Since
July 2014
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/ausmazehanatkhan
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The Unquiet Dead (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #1)
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2015
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The Language of Secrets (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak, #2)
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2016
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Blackwater Falls (Blackwater Falls, #1)
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2022
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Among the Ruins (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak, #3)
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2017
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A Dangerous Crossing (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak, #4)
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2018
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The Bloodprint (The Khorasan Archives, #1)
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2017
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A Deadly Divide (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #5)
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A Death in Sarajevo (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak, #3.5)
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The Black Khan (The Khorasan Archives #2)
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2018
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The Blue Eye (The Khorasan Archives #3)
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I'm a huge fan of Nafiza Azad's gorgeous writing. Her debut, The Candle and the Flame, had such stunning prose I couldn't believe it was her first novel. Now with Road of the Lost, you can see the fullness of the themes she is interested in an as aut ...more | |
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I loved this book! The writing is witty and sharp, the heroine is both poignant and complex, and the plot and pacing had me hooked until the last page. Here's my blurb too! “The Revenge List is a pulse-pounding thriller with a riveting, take-no-prisone ...more |
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I absolutely loved this book. The characters are so well-drawn, and the pace never lets up. I read it in one go because I couldn't put it down, and here's my blurb: “The Revenge List is a pulse-pounding thriller with a riveting, take-no-prisoners heroi ...more |
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“If one could be enraged by the loss of a favorite sports team, shouldn't his anger rise at the entrenchment of a scheme whereby no innocent person was safe, where self-determination was a crime punished by the vagaries of an opaque & impervious justice system?”
― Among the Ruins
― Among the Ruins
“....in Bosnia, mass rape was a policy of the war, systematically carried out, implicating neighbors, paramilitaries, soldiers.”
― The Unquiet Dead
― The Unquiet Dead
“Something could be beautiful, humane, encompassing. Or it could be made ugly. And maybe that was the lesson. We bring to a tradition what is already within ourselves, however our moral compass is designed, whatever our ethical training is. And then the tradition speaks.”
― The Language of Secrets
― The Language of Secrets
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“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
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