Sophia Khan

DEAR YASMEEN (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Irenie, a young girl coming of age in upstate New York, has a secret at the core of her life. Her mother - the striking, charismatic Yasmeen - disappeared five years earlier. Her father, James, a distant, eccentric academic so bewitched by his late wife, has never spoken of this gaping absence from their lives. Yasmeen is presumed dead, though Irenie has doubts. In a hidden loft space above her father's study, Irenie wafts her mother's perfume across the room, causing James to enter haunted reveries centred on the silent memory of Yasmeen. In that same space, Irenie discovers a box containing old love letters exchanged between her mother and a man named Ahmed, who remained in Yasmeen's native Pakistan as she immigrated to the US. The lovers never reunited; as the story unravels, we discover the details only as Irenie does. Yasmeen's past and ultimate fate are revealed gradually, in part through Irenie's visit to her relatives in Islamabad. As this heartbreaking, unusual and utterly unputdownable novel reaches its dénouement, Irenie and James learn to become the protagonists of their own lives as they uncover the secrets ruling them both.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Garnet Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781902932507
• Artikelnr.: 45757752

Autorenporträt

Sophia Khan was born in Islamabad. She spent most of her childhood in Pakistan before moving to the US, where she studied English at Haverford College and received an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Islamabad with her husband, and is currently working on her second novel. Her story Aabirah was shortlisted for the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.