First-rate – intelligent, vivid and completely absorbing

Daily Mail

I can’t recommend<i> A God in Every Stone</i> by Kamila Shamsie too strongly – this is her best novel yet … Exciting and, in the end, profoundly moving, this will solace you during the grimmest holiday

- Antonia Fraser, Guardian Summer Reading

A magnificent novel: beautiful, terrible, true … It reads already like a classic

- Ali Smith,

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A page-turner that is also a literary page-turner

- Jeanette Winterson, Guardian Summer Reading

A moving story of love and betrayal, generosity and brutality, hope and injustice, full of characters that stay with you

Financial Times

BY THE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION_______________'I can’t recommend A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie too strongly ... Exciting and, in the end, profoundly moving, this will solace you during the grimmest holiday' - Antonia Fraser, Guardian Summer Reading'A magnificent novel: beautiful, terrible, true … It reads already like a classic' - Ali Smith'A moving story of love and betrayal, generosity and brutality, hope and injustice, full of characters that stay with you' - Financial Times_______________Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for FictionSummer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army. Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost an eye at Ypres. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives – one that will reveal itself fifteen years later when anti-colonial resistance, an ancient artefact and a mysterious woman will bring them together again.
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First-rate – intelligent, vivid and completely absorbing
By the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781526607782
Publisert
2018-09-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
285 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
400

Forfatter

Biographical note

Kamila Shamsie is the author of six novels: In the City by the Sea (shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Salt and Saffron; Kartography (also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Broken Verses; Burnt Shadows (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction) and A God in Every Stone, which was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Home Fire was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award, and won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018. Three of her novels have received awards from Pakistan's Academy of Letters. Kamila Shamsie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist in 2013. She grew up in Karachi and now lives in London.

@kamilashamsie