Salt and Saffron

ISBN-13: 9781526607805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Kamila Shamsie

Opis

By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 The Dard-e-Dils are characterised by their prominent clavicles and love of stories. Aliya may not have inherited her family's patrician looks, but she is prey to their legends that stretch back to the days of Timur Lang. There is a sting to most of these tales, for the Dard-e-Dils consider themselves cursed by their `not-quite' twins. Amidst her growing attraction to a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Aliya begins to believe that she is another `not-quite' twin, linked to her scandalous aunt Mariam in a way that hardly bodes well...