In the City by the Sea

_______________'Full of fun, longing and wit … a debut of spirit and imagination, loaded with intelligent charm' - Ali Smith'A touching and engrossing story … an assured debut' - The Times'A colourful and peripatetic view of politics in Pakistan … an interesting and promising novel' - Guardian_______________BY THE ACCLAIMED WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS PRIZE_______________Hasan is eleven years old. He loves cricket, pomegranates, the night sky, his clever, vibrant artistic mother and his etymologically obsessed lawyer father, and he adores his next-door neighbour Zehra. One early summer morning, while lazing happily on the roof, Hasan watches a young boy flying a yellow kite fall to his death. Soon after, Hasan's idyllic, sheltered family life is shattered when his beloved uncle Salman, a dissenting politician, is arrested and charged with treason... Set in a land ruled by an oppressive military regime, this eloquent, charming and quietly political novel vividly recreates the confusing world of a young boy on the edge of adulthood, and beautifully illustrates the transformative power of the imagination.

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''Full of fun, longing and wit … a debut of spirit and imagination, loaded with intelligent charm'' - Ali Smith

''A touching and engrossing story … an assured debut'' - The Times

''A colourful and peripatetic view of politics in Pakistan … an interesting and promising novel'' - Guardian
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BY THE ACCLAIMED WINNER OF THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS PRIZE
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Hasan is eleven years old. He loves cricket, pomegranates, the night sky, his clever, vibrant artistic mother and his etymologically obsessed lawyer father, and he adores his next-door neighbour Zehra. One early summer morning, while lazing happily on the roof, Hasan watches a young boy flying a yellow kite fall to his death.

Soon after, Hasan''s idyllic, sheltered family life is shattered when his beloved uncle Salman, a dissenting politician, is arrested and charged with treason... Set in a land ruled by an oppressive military regime, this eloquent, charming and quietly political novel vividly recreates the confusing world of a young boy on the edge of adulthood, and beautifully illustrates the transformative power of the imagination.

• | Author: Kamila Shamsie
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• | Publication Date: Sep 20, 2018
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781526607836
• | ISBN-10: 1526607832