Description
In the summer of 1915, Viv and Qayyum set out from Britain toward the same distant destination—one chasing an ancient artefact coveted by a powerful patron, the other returning home to Peshawar. As their journeys unfold, the novel braids wartime upheaval with archaeological obsession and the long afterlives of empire, moving from the Western Front to the streets and histories of the “city of flowers.” At its center is a young man, Najeeb Gul, whose life reveals the subtle contradictions of a place shaped by conquest, resistance, and memory. With Kamila Shamsie’s tense, luminous prose, the story explores friendship, injustice, love, and betrayal—showing how bonds formed across borders can be tested, broken, and remade by politics and violence.
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paperback
Atavist Books
Published Jan 1, 2014
326 pages
ISBN: 9781937894306
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First Published
2014
Language
eng
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