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In the city by the sea
Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-2025
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Hasan is 11 years old. He loves cricket, pomegranates, the night sky, his clever, vibrant artistic mother and his etymologically obsessed lawyer father, and he adores his next-door neighbour Zehra. One early summer morning, while lazing happily on the roof, Hasan watches a young boy flying a yellow kite fall to his death. Soon after, Hasan's idyllic, sheltered family life is shattered when his beloved uncle Salman, a dissenting politician, is arrested and charged with treason. Set in a land ruled by an oppressive military regime, this eloquent, charming and quietly political novel vividly recreates the confusing world of a young boy on the edge of adulthood, and beautifully illustrates the transformative power of the imagination.
Main title:
In the city by the sea / Kamila Shamsie.
Author:
Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.
Collation:
214 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Granta, 1998.
ISBN:
9781526679994 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
8789181