Uzma Aslam Khan

Trespassing

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

169 kr

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A world-class tale of love and deceit, rivalry and destiny from the Lahore-based writer Uzma Aslam Khan.'Standing in a room with eight thousand tiny creatures, witnessing them perform a dance that few humans even knew occurred; this was life. Everywhere she looked, each caterpillar nosed the air like a wand and out passed silk… When Dia watched one spin, she came closer to understanding the will of God than at any other time.'Dia is the daughter of a silk farmer, Riffat – an innovative, decisive businesswoman. Like her mother, Dia seems at first sight unrestricted, spirited and resourceful. She seems free. But freedom has its own borders, patrolled by the covetous and the zealous, and there are those who yearn to jump the fence.Daanish has come back to Karachi for his father’s funeral, all the way from America, a land where there are plenty of rules but few restrictions. When Dia and Daanish meet, they chafe against all the formalities. It is left to a handful of silkworms, slipped inside a friend’s dupatta, tickling skin, to rupture the fragile peace of both their houses – to make the space in which Dia and Daanish can create something together…

Trespassing

AvUzma Aslam Khan

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

395 kr

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Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali

AvUzma Aslam Khan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

299 kr

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Set in the Andaman Islands over the course of oppressive imperial regimes, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali is a complex, gripping homage to those omitted from the collective memory.Nomi and Zee are Local Borns—their father a convict condemned by the British to the Andaman Islands, their mother shipped off with him. The islands are an inhospitable place, despite their surreal beauty. In this unreliable world, the children have their friend Aye, the pet hen Priya and the distracted love of their parents to shore them up from one day to the next. Meanwhile, within the walls of the prison, Prisoner 218 D wages a war on her jailers with only her body and her memory.When war descends upon this overlooked outpost of Empire, the British are forced out and the Japanese move in. Soon the first shot is fired and Zee is forced to flee, leaving Nomi and the other islanders to contend with a new malice. The islands—and the seas surrounding them—become a battlefield, resulting in tragedy for some and a brittle kind of freedom for others, who find themselves increasingly entangled in a mesh of alliances and betrayals. Ambitiously imagined and hauntingly alive, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali writes into being the interwoven stories of people caught in the vortex of history, powerless yet with powers of their own: of bravery and wonder, empathy and endurance. Uzma Aslam Khan’s extraordinary new novel is an unflinching and lyrical page-turner, an epic telling of a largely forgotten chapter in the history of the subcontinent.

Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali

AvUzma Aslam Khan

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

182 kr

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Winner of the 2023 Massachusetts Book Award, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali weaves fictional narrative with real historical events, set against the backdrop of the Andaman Islands reeling from the effects of war.Local Borns Nomi & Zee – find themselves alone after their parents are shipped away. The Andaman Islands, while beautiful, are an inhospitable place. Together with their friend Aye, the pet hen Priya, and the distracted love of their parents, the siblings make it through from one day to the next. Meanwhile, within the walls of the prison, war wages on between prisoners and their jailers.When war descends upon this overlooked outpost of the Empire, the British are forced out and the Japanese move in.It’s not long before the first shot is fired, forcing Zee to flee, leaving Nomi and the other islanders to contend with a new malice. The islands—and the seas surrounding them—become a battlefield, resulting in tragedy for some and a brittle kind of freedom for others. Uzma Aslam Khan writes of people caught in the vortex of history, powerless in many ways, yet unveils their own bravery, empathy, and endurance. "Khan's suspenseful, thought-provoking narrative is a challenge to simple assumptions about enemies and friends, loyalty and betrayal," (The New York Times) The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali, is an unflinching and lyrical page-turner, an epic telling of a largely forgotten chapter in the history of the subcontinent.

Thinner Than Skin

AvUzma Aslam Khan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

246 kr

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"Smart, fierce, and poignant: perhaps the most exciting novel yet by this very talented writer." Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West and The Reluctant FundamentalistA 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.

Thinner Than Skin

AvUzma Aslam Khan

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

120 kr

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"Smart, fierce, and poignant: perhaps the most exciting novel yet by this very talented writer." Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West and The Reluctant FundamentalistA 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.

Den fantastiska sanna historien om Nomi Ali

AvUzma Aslam Khan

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Inbunden, Svenska, 2021

219 kr

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Nomi och Zee tillhör De Infödda deras far dömdes en gång i tiden till att sitta av sitt fängelsestraff på de isolerade Andamanöarna, och när fängelsetiden är över måste han bli kvar med sin familj och odla upp marken åt britterna. Öarna är en ogästvänlig plats trots sin surrealistiska skönhet, trots att de kallats ett fångarnas paradis .

När andra världskriget bryter ut avfyras snart det första skottet i Nomis by, och Zee tvingas fly. Kvar blir Nomi, som försöker förhandla med ödet och rädda sin älskade familj. Men när makten över öarna skiftar fram och tillbaka mellan britterna och japanerna är bara en sak säker: ingen är på Nomis och Zees sida.

Den fantastiska sanna historien om Nomi Ali är en tät och lyrisk iscensättning av ett glömt kapitel i historien, men också en drabbande historia om maktlöshet, mod och mirakel, och om kampen för att upprätthålla sin värdighet och medmänsklighet även under de svåraste förhållanden.

"Det här är en berättelse du inte vill missa!" The Tribune

"en storslagen, upprörande och gripande berättelse. (...) Khans berättelse är drabbande läsning på flera plan: som historisk roman, som vittneslitteratur, som plågsam och detaljerad skildring av tortyr och förnedring. Men också som en historia om hopp, vänskap och kärlek som kan överleva även under de vidrigaste av omständigheter." SvD, Magnus Persson

"Det är en underbar bok, poetiskt berättad, en njutning att läsa, en berättelse som stannar kvar och skaver. Helhetsbetyg: 5 (av 5)." BTJ, Pia Lindestrand

"en imponerande roman om ett bortglömt kapitel ur den rasistiska kolonisationens historia. Det är också en starkt feministisk berättelse som skriver in kvinnorna och flickorna i historien. Här får äntligen de kvinnliga fångarna ett ansikte." Opulens, Carolina Thelin

"trots sitt mörka ämne, så är den här boken så otroligt vackert berättad. Den griper tag i en och får en att fundera över hur mycket historia som faktiskt är bortglömd och oberättad." nikolinas_bokhylla, bokblogg

UZMA ASLAM KHAN är född och uppvuxen i Pakistan, men bor nu i USA. Hon fick sitt genombrott med den hyllade Trådarna i väven (2004). Den fantastiska sanna historien om Nomi Ali är hennes femte roman.

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