Salt and Saffron

<p><b>_______________</b><br><br><b>'Beautifully written in cunning, punning, glancing prose' </b><i>- Independent</i><br><br><b>'A whirlwind … Owes plenty to Salman Rushdie and some to Hollywood … Exuberant, knowingly exotic and deceptively serious' </b><i>- Guardian</i><br><br><b>'Kamila Shamsie has created a rich, bright world'</b><i> - Times Literary Supplement</i><br><b>_______________</b><br><br><i>Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land.</i><br><br>Aliya 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.<br><br>A tale of family lore, secrets and forbidden love, <i>Salt and Saffron</i> is an awe-inspiring novel written with compassion, wryness and glittering prose.<br><b>_______________</b><br><br><b>'A funny, clever and romantic story' </b>- Barbara Trapido<br><br><b>'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' </b><i>- India Today</i></p>