Broken verses
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Published
Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, [2005].
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 20 cm
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Published
Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, [2005].
Format
Book
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"A Harvest original."
Description
Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's greatest poet, was beaten to death by government thugs. 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, Broken Verses 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Shamsie, K. (2005). Broken verses (1st U.S. ed.). Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-. 2005. Broken Verses. Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-. Broken Verses Harcourt, 2005.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Shamsie, Kamila. Broken Verses 1st U.S. ed., Harcourt, 2005.
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