Best of Friends
Autor Kamila Shamsieen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 sep 2023
Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though--or maybe because--they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have each cut a distinctive path through London. But when two troubling figures from their past resurface, they must finally confront their bedrock differences--and find out whether their friendship can survive. Thought-provoking, compassionate, and full of unexpected turns, Best of Friends offers a riveting take on an age-old question: Does principle or loyalty make for the better friend?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780593421833
ISBN-10: 0593421833
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 130 x 199 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0593421833
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 130 x 199 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
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Notă biografică
Kamila Shamsie is the author of several previous novels, most recently Home Fire, which won the Women's Prize for Fiction, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa Novel Award, and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, among other honors. She was raised in Karachi and lives in London.
Caracteristici
Dealing with immigration, class, technology, betrayal, British Muslim identity - and above all, the profundity and conflict of female friendship - Best of Friends is at once a powerful state-of-the-nation novel, and a painfully intimate confrontation of the acts that unravel our public and private lives
Recenzii
A defining novel for our times . An intimate study of the ties that bind us
A shining tour de force about a long friendship's respects, disrespects, loyalties and moralities. Shamsie never compromises. This novel is of a rare quality, and even more evidence of her ability to write fiction that's simultaneously vividly alive to its time and so good and true that it's as if it has always been with us.
I loved Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie- witty and painful, and so sharp on the problem of love and politics
An adolescent coming-of-age novel and paean to female friendship . particularly excellent on the particularities of adult friendship forged in childhood
A moving exploration of friendship and identity across ideological divides
A new Kamila Shamsie novel is always worth celebrating, but Best of Friends is something else: an epic story that explores the ties of childhood friendship, the possibility of escape, the way the political world intrudes into the personal, all through the lens of two sharply drawn protagonists
The spirit of Elena Ferrante haunts this tale of a friendship forged in Karachi
A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces
It is a rare writer who can examine with such insight and tenderness the forces that bind us to certain moments in life, and do it in language that is both precise and exquisite, expansive and attuned to the tiniest emotional detail. Kamila Shamsie has done it again in this magnificent, profoundly moving novel. Best of Friends is compulsive reading, and a reminder that in the end, the strongest force is always love
A powerful story about friendship
A compelling exploration of private and public lives in free fall in 1980s Karachi
The human heart can harbour deeply hidden contradictions. Here Kamila Shamsie brilliantly unearths the darker emotions that can live beneath the surface of a friendship - virtue laced with venality and love poisoned with the sugared toxins of envy and even hate. A disturbing and carefully crafted novel of rich psychological insight
Friendship and power collide in Best of Friends
A gripping portrayal of female connection
A twisting story brilliantly told
A haunting novel which asks big questions about justice, class, and the borders of our moral selves, all wrapped around the deliciously absorbing story of a childhood friendship that endures - fun, complicated, the kind of friendship that feels elemental
Sophisticated and poignant . A moving portrait of two lifelong friends
A beautiful, enchanting story about friendship
A story of power, identity and friendship . Told in lyrical prose, Best of Friends is a compelling tale by one of today's greatest writers
I devoured this novel. Both a stinging indictment of corruption and prejudice in modern Britain and a nuanced portrait of friendship
'Best of Friends has much the same premise as Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet: a friendship charted from girlhood to middle age, taking in education, puberty, sex, ideological conflicts, personal rivalries, intimate secrets .'
Cleverly captures the competitive nature of even the closest friendships . a beautifully crafted novel with excellent characterisation, skilfully interweaving the personal and the political throughout
The relationship between Maryam and Zahra captures the passion, intimacy and depth of longstanding female friendships as well as the hidden currents that sometimes take decades to rise to the surface. The realities of life under dictatorship in 1980's Pakistan is highlighted against the privileges and concerns of the upper class. This is a magnificent and important novel by a writer in full mastery of her powers
Wonderfully realised. Shamsie captures the fizz and fissure of teenage friendship, the rivalry and trust, the secrets shared and hidden. . Shamsie's observations about social media are clever and incisive, as are those about Pakistani and English social mores
PRAISE FOR HOME FIRE: The book for our times
Home Fire has lit a light that'll never go out
Her prose is propulsive and unfailingly elegant, and her eye for detail is acute ... A brave and brilliant novel
Managed to do all the things I want novels to do - tell me something about the world, give me a tiny glimpse into the otherness of others, and, most of all, give me that ache of longing as I turned the last page and realised I would never meet these characters again
Shamsie's writing resonates on the human, political and lyrical plane but its topicality, tight plot and vivid characterisation also suggest a film script in the making
Elegant and evocative ... A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world, tipping its hat to the same dilemma in the ancient one
Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century ... There is high, high music in the air at the end of Home Fire
Utterly contemporary and deeply original too
One of the best novels of the year ... magnificent ... Insistently intelligent without becoming didactic ... conveyed in prose of stunning suppleness and economy ... Home Fire is everything literary fiction should be - an exciting, beautiful, profound novel of lasting value that deserves laurels
A shining tour de force about a long friendship's respects, disrespects, loyalties and moralities. Shamsie never compromises. This novel is of a rare quality, and even more evidence of her ability to write fiction that's simultaneously vividly alive to its time and so good and true that it's as if it has always been with us.
I loved Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie- witty and painful, and so sharp on the problem of love and politics
An adolescent coming-of-age novel and paean to female friendship . particularly excellent on the particularities of adult friendship forged in childhood
A moving exploration of friendship and identity across ideological divides
A new Kamila Shamsie novel is always worth celebrating, but Best of Friends is something else: an epic story that explores the ties of childhood friendship, the possibility of escape, the way the political world intrudes into the personal, all through the lens of two sharply drawn protagonists
The spirit of Elena Ferrante haunts this tale of a friendship forged in Karachi
A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces
It is a rare writer who can examine with such insight and tenderness the forces that bind us to certain moments in life, and do it in language that is both precise and exquisite, expansive and attuned to the tiniest emotional detail. Kamila Shamsie has done it again in this magnificent, profoundly moving novel. Best of Friends is compulsive reading, and a reminder that in the end, the strongest force is always love
A powerful story about friendship
A compelling exploration of private and public lives in free fall in 1980s Karachi
The human heart can harbour deeply hidden contradictions. Here Kamila Shamsie brilliantly unearths the darker emotions that can live beneath the surface of a friendship - virtue laced with venality and love poisoned with the sugared toxins of envy and even hate. A disturbing and carefully crafted novel of rich psychological insight
Friendship and power collide in Best of Friends
A gripping portrayal of female connection
A twisting story brilliantly told
A haunting novel which asks big questions about justice, class, and the borders of our moral selves, all wrapped around the deliciously absorbing story of a childhood friendship that endures - fun, complicated, the kind of friendship that feels elemental
Sophisticated and poignant . A moving portrait of two lifelong friends
A beautiful, enchanting story about friendship
A story of power, identity and friendship . Told in lyrical prose, Best of Friends is a compelling tale by one of today's greatest writers
I devoured this novel. Both a stinging indictment of corruption and prejudice in modern Britain and a nuanced portrait of friendship
'Best of Friends has much the same premise as Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet: a friendship charted from girlhood to middle age, taking in education, puberty, sex, ideological conflicts, personal rivalries, intimate secrets .'
Cleverly captures the competitive nature of even the closest friendships . a beautifully crafted novel with excellent characterisation, skilfully interweaving the personal and the political throughout
The relationship between Maryam and Zahra captures the passion, intimacy and depth of longstanding female friendships as well as the hidden currents that sometimes take decades to rise to the surface. The realities of life under dictatorship in 1980's Pakistan is highlighted against the privileges and concerns of the upper class. This is a magnificent and important novel by a writer in full mastery of her powers
Wonderfully realised. Shamsie captures the fizz and fissure of teenage friendship, the rivalry and trust, the secrets shared and hidden. . Shamsie's observations about social media are clever and incisive, as are those about Pakistani and English social mores
PRAISE FOR HOME FIRE: The book for our times
Home Fire has lit a light that'll never go out
Her prose is propulsive and unfailingly elegant, and her eye for detail is acute ... A brave and brilliant novel
Managed to do all the things I want novels to do - tell me something about the world, give me a tiny glimpse into the otherness of others, and, most of all, give me that ache of longing as I turned the last page and realised I would never meet these characters again
Shamsie's writing resonates on the human, political and lyrical plane but its topicality, tight plot and vivid characterisation also suggest a film script in the making
Elegant and evocative ... A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world, tipping its hat to the same dilemma in the ancient one
Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century ... There is high, high music in the air at the end of Home Fire
Utterly contemporary and deeply original too
One of the best novels of the year ... magnificent ... Insistently intelligent without becoming didactic ... conveyed in prose of stunning suppleness and economy ... Home Fire is everything literary fiction should be - an exciting, beautiful, profound novel of lasting value that deserves laurels