Best of friends
Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-2023
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Fourteen-year-old Maryam and Zahra have always been the best of friends, despite their different backgrounds. Maryam takes for granted that she will stay in Karachi and inherit the family business; while Zahra keeps her desires secret, and dreams of escaping abroad. This year, 1988, anything seems possible for the girls; and for Pakistan, emerging from the darkness of dictatorship into a bright future under another young woman, Benazir Bhutto. But a snap decision at a party celebrating the return of democracy brings the girls' childhoods abruptly to an end. Its consequences will shape their futures in ways they cannot imagine.
Best of friends / Kamila Shamsie.
Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-, author
London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2023.
315 pages ; 20 cm
Originally published: 2022.
9781526647719 (pbk)
823.92
English
1197386