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Up in the glaciers of Northern Pakistan, a tragedy at a mountain lake entwines the fates of two lovers with the people they encounter there: Miryam, a nomad, travelling with her family into the mountains to escape persecution, and Irfan, haunted by ghosts and hoping that the mountains may offer him …
Thinner Than Skin
$62.99
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
5 April 2018
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Summary
“Smart, fierce, and poignant: perhaps the most exciting novel yet by this very talented writer.” Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist
A Young Pakistani photographer and his American born Pakistani-German lover travel from California to Pakistan in an attempt to exorcize their pasts, in order to build their shared future. Up in the glaciers of Northern Pakistan, a tragedy at a mountain lake entwines the fates of the two lovers w…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781909762671 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1909762679 |
| Author: | Uzma Aslam Khan |
| Publisher: | Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd |
| Imprint: | Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 5 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Dimensions: | 238mm x 158mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Jacaranda |
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About The Author
Uzma Aslam Khan
Uzma Aslam Khan is an award-winning author of four novels. Born in Pakistan, she has lived in locations across the globe, including England, Japan, Philippines and Oceania.
In 2003 her novel Trespassing received a Commonwealth Prize nomination, and The Geometry of God was one of the Kirkus Review’s Best Books of 2009 and won the Bronze award at the Independent Book Publishers Awards. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Massachusetts Review, Counterpunch, Drawbridge, Dawn, Herald, among other anthologies and journals.Khan currently lives in western Massachusetts where she teachers at Hampshire College. Thinner Than Skin is her latest novel.Returns
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