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The more you write, the more you make things harder for yourself kamila shamsie. Her first and third novels, in the city by the sea and kartography, were both shortlisted for the john. She has been a finalist for the man booker prize, the orange prize twice and the dsc prize for south asian literature, among other honors, and ha. Kamila shamsie, a god in every stone bloomsbury, 2014 a god in every stone is the prolific, award winning pakistani writer, kamila shamsies sixth novel. The familys unspoken rules had it that this was hasans territory, as sacred as amis studio or abas crosswordchair. He loves cricket, pomegranates, the night sky, his clever, vibrant artistic mother and his etymologically obsessed lawyer father, and. The contemporary storys deep lingering impression is summed up by twotime booker prize winner peter carey. She has a ba in creative writing from hamilton college in clinton, ny and an mfa from the university of massachusetts, amherst.
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