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The Runaways (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781839760341)
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x"Dazzling. A novel that holds up to scrutiny a world of claustrophobic war zones, virulent social media and cities collapsing upon themselves, and then sets it down again, transformed by the grace of storytelling."
- Siddartha Deb, author of The Point of Return Anita lives in Karachi's biggest slum. Her mother is a maalish wali, paid to massage the tired bones of rich women. But Anita's life will change forever when she meets her elderly neighbour, a man whose shelves of books promise an escape to a different world. On the other side of Karachi lives Monty, whose father owns half the city and expects great things of him. But when a beautiful and rebellious girl joins his school, Monty will find his life going in a very different direction. Sunny's father left India and went to England to give his son the opportunities he never had. Yet Sunny doesn't fit in anywhere. It's only when his charismatic cousin comes back into his life that he realises his life could hold more possibilities than he ever imagined. These three lives will cross in the desert, a place where life and death walk hand in hand, and where their closely guarded secrets will force them to make a terrible choice.
Author: Fatima Bhutto
ISBN-10: 1839760346
ISBN-13: 9781839760341
Publisher: Verso Fiction
Language: English
Published: 08/18/2020
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2020
Foreword 06/26/2020
Booklist 07/01/2020 pg. 21
Publishers Weekly 08/17/2020
- Siddartha Deb, author of The Point of Return Anita lives in Karachi's biggest slum. Her mother is a maalish wali, paid to massage the tired bones of rich women. But Anita's life will change forever when she meets her elderly neighbour, a man whose shelves of books promise an escape to a different world. On the other side of Karachi lives Monty, whose father owns half the city and expects great things of him. But when a beautiful and rebellious girl joins his school, Monty will find his life going in a very different direction. Sunny's father left India and went to England to give his son the opportunities he never had. Yet Sunny doesn't fit in anywhere. It's only when his charismatic cousin comes back into his life that he realises his life could hold more possibilities than he ever imagined. These three lives will cross in the desert, a place where life and death walk hand in hand, and where their closely guarded secrets will force them to make a terrible choice.
Author: Fatima Bhutto
ISBN-10: 1839760346
ISBN-13: 9781839760341
Publisher: Verso Fiction
Language: English
Published: 08/18/2020
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2020
Foreword 06/26/2020
Booklist 07/01/2020 pg. 21
Publishers Weekly 08/17/2020
By Fatima Bhutto
xFatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and grew up between Syria and Pakistan. She is the author of five previous books of fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, was long listed for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction and the memoir about her father's life and assassination, Songs of Blood and Sword, was published to acclaim. Her most recent book is The Runaways. She graduated from Barnard with a degree in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and has a masters in South Asian Government and politics from SOAS. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @fbhutto.
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