15 Apr, 2015
Pakistani novelist shortlisted for Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction – DAWN.COM
Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie of Kartography and Salt and Saffron fame has been shortlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel A God in Every Stone.
Published in 2014, The Guardian described A God in Every Stone as a story that “follows a young Londoner, Vivian Rose Spencer, from an archaeological dig in Turkey back to Britain where she works as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse during the first world war. After a crucial betrayal, she travels on to Peshawar.”
Critics have called the book ‘evocative’ and ‘beautifully composed’.
Read the rest: Kamila Shamsie shortlisted for Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction – Pakistan – DAWN.COM.
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