Kamila Shamsie
Paperback | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 3.59 | 1776 Users | 217 Reviews
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| Title | : | Broken Verses |
| Author | : | Kamila Shamsie |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2005 by Mariner Books (first published January 1st 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Pakistan. Asia. Literary Fiction |
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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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| Original Title: | Broken Verses |
| ISBN: | 0156030535 (ISBN13: 9780156030533) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.59 From 1776 Users | 217 ReviewsEvaluation Epithetical Books Broken Verses
Intriguing and emotional, like all her works are, but also tiring and convoluted.This is very personal-- I feel like I could be Aasmaani. She reminds me almost exactly of myself. I especially liked the author's discussion of the nature of one's character on pages 142-143: "Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behavior. It is the self-fulfilling prophecy that guides our lives, worming its way so deep beneath the levels of conscious thought that we forget ther emight have been a time when our defining traits
Just beautiful
From June 2005 School Library Journal:Growing up in modern-day Pakistan, Aasmaani Inqalab is no stranger to government corruption and intrigue. Her heroes since childhood have been her mother, an outspoken activist, and her mothers lover, a poet known for his criticism of bureaucracy. Far from a stable influence while Aasmaani was growing up, the couple had a pattern of disappearing into exile when the government drew too close and reappearing in Aasmaanis life a few months or years later.
Broken Verses is the fourth of five books in our local library's Muslim Journeys program. It takes place in Karachi, Pakistan since 9/11. The main character, a spoiled, whining 30 year old woman, has not learned that she is not the center of the universe. It is a lesson she needs to learn to grow.The story did not interest me. The author did not make me care what happens. I was only mildly curious about who did what and why. I was more curious as to why this book was chosen for the Muslim
Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram vanished without a trace - two years after her lover, the country's most renowned poet, was killed, likely by government forces. Now, Samina's daughter Aasmaani has come into possession of letters written in a code known only to the three of them that suggest that either or both could still be alive, compelling her to embark on a potentially dangerous search for the truth behind their fates.Kamila Shamsie's writing is alluring and
It took me over a week to read this book, twice of what I'd normally have taken. This is because I'd linger over a phrase, a paragraph and often go back and read the whole page all over again. I stretched out the reading to savour the experience. I don't remember the last time I wanted to do that with a book. The story of Aasmaani Inquilab is interesting enough. If the story moves at a slightly slower pace than one is used to in the current fare, it is more than made up for by how beautifully
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