{"product_id":"broken-verses-isbn-9780156030533","title":"Broken Verses","description":"\u003cp\u003eFourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's greatest poet, was beaten to death by government thugs. In present-day Karachi, her daughter Aasmaani has just discovered a letter in the couple's private code—a letter that could only have been written recently.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Aasmaani is thirty, single, drifting from job to job. Always left behind whenever Samina followed the Poet into exile, she had assumed that her mother's disappearance was simply another abandonment. Then, while working at Pakistan's first independent TV station, Aasmaani runs into an old friend of Samina's who gives her the first letter, then many more. Where could the letters have come from? And will they lead her to her mother?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Merging the personal with the political, \u003ci\u003eBroken Verses\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a sharp, thrilling journey through modern-day Pakistan, a carefully coded mystery, and an intimate mother-daughter story that asks how we forgive a mother who leaves.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eBROKEN VERSES \u003c\/i\u003e  \"[Shamsie] packs her story with the playful evidence of her high-flying intelligence.\" —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e   \"This 30-year-old has been described as a young Anita Desai, and her third book, about childhood, love, life and high society in Karachi during the turbulent 1990s, is worth all the prepublication fuss.\" —\u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e   \"A fresh literary look at modern-day Pakistan…[a] beautiful meditation on love, forgiveness, and letting go.\" —\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e  \"Richly woven…There is a succulent pleasure to the narrative that draws you happily to its end.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e  \"This is also a story about parents and children, about Aasmaani trying to make peace with her strange childhood. It is a story about love, as Aasmaani and Shehnaz's son find themselves drawn to each other. And there's politics, to boot. The political backdrop-criticism of America, anxiety about the role of fundamentalists in Pakistani government-remains just that, a backdrop; it never overshadows, but rather somehow expands, the story…A thoroughly captivating tale.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred)   \"Intriguing, shimmeringly intelligent…Shamsie's crowning triumph.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890307199205,"sku":"NP9780156030533","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780156030533.jpg?v=1730233001","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/broken-verses-isbn-9780156030533","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}