Best of friends
Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-2022
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Fourteen-year-old Maryam and Zahra have always been the best of friends, despite their different backgrounds. Maryam takes for granted that she will stay in Karachi and inherit the family business; while Zahra keeps her desires secret, and dreams of escaping abroad. This year, 1988, anything seems possible for the girls; and for Pakistan, emerging from the darkness of dictatorship into a bright future under another young woman, Benazir Bhutto. But a snap decision at a party celebrating the return of democracy brings the girls' childhoods abruptly to an end. Its consequences will shape their futures in ways they cannot imagine.
Main title:
Best of friends / Kamila Shamsie.
Author:
Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2022.
Collation:
315 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781526647702 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92GAF
LC class:
PR9540.9.S485
Local class:
FTFICFAFAFBC
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3145222