EAN: 9781526647719

BEST OF FRIENDS - KAMILA SHAMSIE KARTONIERT (TB)

'A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces' MADELINE MILLER ** SHORTLISTED FOR
THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2023 ** CHOSEN AS A BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR BY THE GUARDIAN  BBC  OBSERVER 
DAILY MAIL  IRISH TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMES ** Maryam and Zahra. In 1988 Karachi  two
fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship  sharing in-jokes  secrets and a
love for George Michael. As Pakistan's dictatorship falls and a woman comes to power  the world
suddenly seems full of possibilities. Elated by the change in the air  they make a snap
decision at a party. That night  everything goes wrong  and the two girls are powerless to
change the outcome. Zahra and Maryam. In present-day London  two influential women remain bound
together by loyalties  disloyalties  and the memory of that night  which echoes through the
present in unexpected ways. Now both have power  and both have very different ideas of how to
wield it. Their friendship has always felt unbreakable  can it be undone by one decision? 'An
epic story that explores the ties of childhood friendship  the possibility of escape  the way
the political world intrudes into the personal  all through the lens of two sharply drawn
protagonists' Observer

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