
Thinner than Skin
Author(s): Uzma Aslam Khan (Author)
- Publisher: Jacaranda Books
- Publication Date: 24 April 2018
- Language: English
- Print length: 448 pages
- ISBN-10: 1909762679
- ISBN-13: 9781909762671
Book Description
“Smart, fierce, and poignant: perhaps the most exciting novel yet by this very talented writer.” — Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Young Pakistani photographer and his American born Pakistani-German lover travel from California to Pakistan in an attempt to exorcize their pasts, in order to build their shared future.
Up in the glaciers of Northern Pakistan, a tragedy at a mountain lake entwines the fates of the two lovers with the people they encounter there: Miryam, a nomad, travelling with her family into the mountains to escape persecution, and Irfan, haunted by ghosts and hoping that the mountains may offer him a reprieve from his troubles.
An expansive look at the intersection of cultures and what happens at those intersections,
Thinner Than Skin is a powerful and moving read.
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