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Broken Verses
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Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's greatest poet, had been beaten to death by government thugs. Now, 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,
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.
"There is a succulent pleasure to the narrative that draws you happily to its end."—
"All of Shamsie's novels are deeply moving and morally complex, leading to the kind of rich reading experience most of us hope for in every novel we pick up."
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“I had heard so much about Kamila Shamsie but never read anything, and now that I have, I can see why Pakistan is proud of her.
This book is poetic, tragic, and full of love.
Sometimes, even though some parts of the story dragged, I still felt the pages flew by, and even though I am kind of sad with something in the end not working out, I am still happy I got to read what love can compel someone to do and Ed you will always for being who you were for Aasmani.
Aasmani's feelings are so relatable as well that how conflicted they were. I have experienced and know it so well. I loved her for the woman she was.”Start a Book Club
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