Bøger af Kamila Shamsie

The brilliant new novel from Pakistan's most acclaimed young writer

_______________'A formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness' - Financial Times'Powerful, epic yet skilfully controlled ... Shamsie's voice is clear and compelling, with a welcome sparseness' - Guardian'Completely authentic, complex, and breath-stopping' - Emma Thompson_______________SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZEBY THE ACCLAIMED WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONAugust 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. She is twenty-one and on the verge of marrying Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns whiteIn the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back, an indelible reminder of the world she has lost. In search of new beginnings, Hiroko travels to Delhi to find Konrad's relatives and falls in love with their employee, Sajjad Ashraf. As the years unravel, new homes replace those left behind and old wars are seamlessly usurped by new conflicts. But the shadows of history - personal, political - are cast over the entwined worlds of different families as they are transported from Pakistan to New York, and in the novel's astonishing climax, to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11. _______________'Shamsie achieves the near impossibility of a truly intimate epic tale ... I challenge anyone to put this book down lightly' - Shami Chakrabarti, Observer, Books of the Year'A giant of novel ... Beautifully realised' - Independent

Best of Friends, a captivating novel by the acclaimed author Kamila Shamsie, is a must-read for all book lovers. Published by Bloomsbury UK in 2023, this book has already garnered much attention in the literary world. Kamila Shamsie, known for her unique writing style and compelling narratives, has once again managed to craft a story that is both engaging and thought-provoking. The genre of the book, though hard to pin down to just one, can be best described as a blend of drama, romance, and suspense. Set against the backdrop of contemporary times, Best of Friends explores the complexities of friendship and the inevitable changes it undergoes over time. It's a book that will make you reflect, empathize, and perhaps even shed a tear or two. Don't miss out on this masterpiece from Bloomsbury UK. Experience the magic of Kamila Shamsie's storytelling with Best of Friends.

Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's greatest poet, was beaten to death by government thugs. In present-day Karachi, her daughter Aasmaani has just discovered a letter in the couple's private code-a letter that could only have been written recently. Aasmaani is thirty, single, drifting from job to job. Always left behind whenever Samina followed the Poet into exile, she had assumed that her mother's disappearance was simply another abandonment. Then, while working at Pakistan's first independent TV station, Aasmaani runs into an old friend of Samina's who gives her the first letter, then many more. Where could the letters have come from? And will they lead her to her mother? Merging the personal with the political, Broken Verses is at once a sharp, thrilling journey through modern-day Pakistan, a carefully coded mystery, and an intimate mother-daughter story that asks how we forgive a mother who leaves.

_______________CHOSEN AS A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, DAILY MAIL, FINANCIAL TIMES AND IRISH TIMES'A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces' - Madeline Miller'A shining tour de force' - Ali Smith, Guardian Summer Reading 'An intimate study of the ties that bind us' - Stylist _______________A dazzling new novel of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people - from the international bestselling author of Home Fire, winner of the Women's Prize for FictionSometimes it was as though the forty years of friendship between them was just a lesson in the unknowability of other people.Maryam and Zahra.In 1988 Karachi, two fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship, sharing in-jokes, secrets and a love for George Michael. As Pakistan's dictatorship falls and a woman comes to power, the world suddenly seems full of possibilities. Elated by the change in the air, they make a snap decision at a party. That night, everything goes wrong, and the two girls are powerless to change the outcome.Zahra and Maryam.In present-day London, two influential women remain bound together by loyalties, disloyalties, and the memory of that night, which echoes through the present in unexpected ways. Now both have power; and both have very different ideas of how to wield it. Their friendship has always felt unbreakable; can it be undone by one decision?_______________'A new Kamila Shamsie novel is always worth celebrating, but Best of Friends is something else: an epic story that explores the ties of childhood friendship, the possibility of escape, the way the political world intrudes into the personal, all through the lens of two sharply drawn protagonists' - Observer, Books of the Year 2022

Raheen and her best friend Karim are raised together from birth. They share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi with parents who are also best friends. But when Karim's family migrates from Pakistan to London, distance and adolescence split the young friends apart. Karim takes refuge in the rationality of maps while Racheen searches for the secret behind her parents' exchange. She uncovers a story not just of a family's turbulent history but that of a country - and finds herself poised between strained friendship and fated love with Karim.

A raincloud-duck, with the heart of a lion, who struck out into the world on her own...'On the farm, some eggs are hatching. But one duckling looks different from all the others... Cast out and all alone, this odd duckling will need all her bravery and curiosity to survive.

Hasan is eleven years old. One summer morning, Hasan watches a young boy flying a yellow kite fall to his death. Set in a land ruled by an oppresive military regime, this novel recreates the confusing world of a young boy on the edge of adulthood, and illustrates the transformative power of the imagination.

A wonderful novel of fated love in Karachi, by the author of Salt and Saffron

The Dard-e-Dils are known for their clavicles and love of stories. The family is cursed by its not-quite twins, and Aliya, prey to her family's legends, begins to believe that she is another 'not-quite twin', cosmically connected with her aunt Mariam in a way that hardly bodes well.

Vores elskede forråder os Vores elskede forlader os Vores elskede er fjender af staten En højaktuel roman om at sætte alt på spil for det man tror på – og for den man elsker. Isma er fri. Efter morens død har hun alene taget hånd om sine tvillingesøskende, og nu hvor de er voksne, kan hun endelig rejse fra London til USA for at genoptage sine studier. Men hun kan ikke lade være med at tænke på Aneeka, hendes smukke og egenrådige søster hjemme i Wembley, eller på sin blide og kunstneriske bror Parvaiz, der er rejst ud i verden for at følge sin egen drøm. Da Parvaiz endelig giver lyd fra sig, er han på det værst tænkelige sted. Han har sluttet sig til en gruppe IS-krigere i Raqqa. Samtidig dukker Eamonn op i søstrenes liv. Som søn af den britiske indenrigsminister, er der store forventninger til ham, og da han og Aneeka indleder et forhold, vikles de ind i et spil, som er større end dem selv, og som får dramatiske konsekvenser for begge familier. En hjerteskærende og knivskarp roman om race og rødder, om forbindelser og forhold – til en sag, et land, en elsket, en familie – fortalt gennem fem fascinerende synsvinkler. Kamila Shamsie er født og opvokset i Karachi, Pakistan og er i dag bosat i London, hvor hun ved siden af sit forfatterskab er litteraturkritiker for bl.a. The Guardian. Hun er forfatter til syv romaner, hvoraf to er udkommet på dansk, Brændte skygger i 2009 og Kort over vejen hjem i 2011. Kamila Shamsie har modtaget flere priser for sine bøger og blev i 2017 nomineret til den prestigefyldte Bookerpris for romanen Vores elskede.

Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of disasters evaded and confronted, loyalties offered and repaid, and loves rewarded and betrayed.