{"product_id":"salt-and-saffron-kamila-shamsie-9781526680006","title":"Salt and Saffron","description":"\u003cp\u003e_______________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Beautifully written in cunning, punning, glancing prose' - Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A whirlwind ... Owes plenty to Salman Rushdie and some to Hollywood ... Exuberant, knowingly exotic and deceptively serious' - Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Kamila Shamsie has created a rich, bright world' - Times Literary Supplement\n\u003cbr\u003e_______________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eComing back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAliya finds herself constantly enraptured by her family's unsettling legends. These are troublesome stories, tinged by the Dard-e-Dil's fear that they are cursed by their 'not-quite' twins. As she becomes romantically intertwined with a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Aliya begins to see links between herself and her scandalous aunt Mariam, which may spell her undoing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA tale of family lore, secrets and forbidden love, Salt and Saffron is an awe-inspiring novel written with compassion, wryness and glittering prose.\n\u003cbr\u003e_______________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A funny, clever and romantic story' - Barbara Trapido\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The stories within the stories describe Pakistani society, its peoples and its mores, better than anything that has come from the Other Side for a long time. This is a good read' - India Today\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kamila Shamsie","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48340380549363,"sku":"9781526680006","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781526680006.jpg?v=1767728230","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/salt-and-saffron-kamila-shamsie-9781526680006","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}