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(Booklist)
"Admirable. [And] Aasmaani's voice - shifting from anger to vulnerability - drives the intriguing story."
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
"Broken Verses speaks to the power of words in an age of repression, played against the turbulent history of Pakistan."
(curledup.com)
"A fresh literary look at modern-day Pakistan. [A] sparse, at times beautiful meditation on love, forgiveness, and letting go. B+."
(Entertainment Weekly)
"An utterly riveting tale. Shamsie has created one of the most compelling characters to appear in recent fiction."
(Herman Fong, The Odyssey Bookshop)
"[The main character] herself is this strong novel's greatest strength. She's a remarkable narrator, in a thoroughly captivating tale."
(starred Kirkus)
"A beautifully written tale that is equal parts A.S. Byatt-style mystery and mother-daughter saga. [D]eftly infused with humor and romance."<br>
(Library Journal)
"This novel is about mothers and daughters, life in a repressive society, and falling in love. Gorgeously written."
(author of Booklust Nancy Pearl)
"Turbulent Karachi is the backdrop for this intriguing, shimmeringly intelligent fourth novel with its wry, fetching, captivating, and unexpected heroine."
(Publishers Weekly)
Kamila Shamsie's first novel, In the City by the Sea, was shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize. After her second novel, Salt and Saffron, she was named one of the Orange Futures "21 Writers for the 21st century". A recipient of the Award for Literary Achievement in Pakistan, she lives in Karachi and London, where she writes frequently for The Guardian. She often teaches in the U.S., and, at 29, is at work on her fourth novel.
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"[Shamsie] packs her story with the playful evidence of her high-flying intelligence." —San Francisco Chronicle
"This 30-year-old has been described as a young Anita Desai, and her third book, about childhood, love, life and high society in Karachi during the turbulent 1990s, is worth all the prepublication fuss." —Harper's Bazaar
"A fresh literary look at modern-day Pakistan...[a] beautiful meditation on love, forgiveness, and letting go." —Entertainment Weekly
"Richly woven...There is a succulent pleasure to the narrative that draws you happily to its end." —The Guardian
"This is also a story about parents and children, about Aasmaani trying to make peace with her strange childhood. It is a story about love, as Aasmaani and Shehnaz's son find themselves drawn to each other. And there's politics, to boot. The political backdrop-criticism of America, anxiety about the role of fundamentalists in Pakistani government-remains just that, a backdrop; it never overshadows, but rather somehow expands, the story...A thoroughly captivating tale." —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"Intriguing, shimmeringly intelligent...Shamsie's crowning triumph." —Publishers Weekly
(Booklist)
"Admirable. [And] Aasmaani's voice - shifting from anger to vulnerability - drives the intriguing story."
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
"Broken Verses speaks to the power of words in an age of repression, played against the turbulent history of Pakistan."
(curledup.com)
"A fresh literary look at modern-day Pakistan. [A] sparse, at times beautiful meditation on love, forgiveness, and letting go. B+."
(Entertainment Weekly)
"An utterly riveting tale. Shamsie has created one of the most compelling characters to appear in recent fiction."
(Herman Fong, The Odyssey Bookshop)
"[The main character] herself is this strong novel's greatest strength. She's a remarkable narrator, in a thoroughly captivating tale."
(starred Kirkus)
"A beautifully written tale that is equal parts A.S. Byatt-style mystery and mother-daughter saga. [D]eftly infused with humor and romance."<br>
(Library Journal)
"This novel is about mothers and daughters, life in a repressive society, and falling in love. Gorgeously written."
(author of Booklust Nancy Pearl)
"Turbulent Karachi is the backdrop for this intriguing, shimmeringly intelligent fourth novel with its wry, fetching, captivating, and unexpected heroine."
(Publishers Weekly)
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