Best of Friends - Shamsie, Kamila
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A dazzling new novel from the author of Home Fire, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction. Fourteen-year-old Maryam and Zahra have always been the best of friends, despite their different backgrounds. This year, 1988, anything seems possible for the girls, and for Pakistan, emerging from the darkness of dictatorship. But a snap decision at a party brings the girls' childhoods abruptly to an end.

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Produktbeschreibung
A dazzling new novel from the author of Home Fire, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction. Fourteen-year-old Maryam and Zahra have always been the best of friends, despite their different backgrounds. This year, 1988, anything seems possible for the girls, and for Pakistan, emerging from the darkness of dictatorship. But a snap decision at a party brings the girls' childhoods abruptly to an end.
Autorenporträt
Kamila Shamsie was born and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. Her most recent novel Home Fire won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2018. It was also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award, and won the London Hellenic Prize. She is the author of six previous novels including Burnt Shadows, shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and A God in Every Stone, shortlisted for the Women's Bailey's Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. Kamila Shamsie is a Fellow and Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature and was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist in 2013. She is professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in London. @kamilashamsie
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A defining novel for our times … An intimate study of the ties that bind us