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Best of friends / Kamila Shamsie.
Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood even though they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences, not even after the night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women, but when two troubling figures from their past resurface, they must finally confront their differences - and find out whether their friendship can survive. From the author of 'Home Fire', which won the Womens Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593421826 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 310 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2022.
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| Subject: | Female friendship > Fiction. Women > Fiction. Karachi (Pakistan) > Fiction. London (England) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- Baker & Taylor
"Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though--or maybe because--they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when amoment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have each cut a distinctive path through London. But when two troubling figures from their past resurface, they must finally confront their bedrock differences--and find out whether their friendship can survive"-- - Baker & Taylor
Two best friends who grew up in Karachi must confront their differences thirty years later when two troubling figures from their past resurface, in the new novel from the acclaimed author of Home Fire. - Penguin Putnam
âA profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces.â âMadeline Miller
âA shining tour de force about a long friendshipâs respects, disrespects, loyalties and moralities.â âAli SmithÂ
From the acclaimed author of Home Fire, the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendship and the forces that bring it to the breaking point
Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even thoughâor maybe becauseâthey are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future.
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Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have each cut a distinctive path through London. But when two troubling figures from their past resurface, they must finally confront their bedrock differencesâand find out whether their friendship can survive.
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Thought-provoking, compassionate, and full of unexpected turns, Best of Friends offers a riveting take on an age-old question: Does principle or loyalty make for the better friend?
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