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A God in Every Stone

By Kamila Shamsie
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A God in Every Stone, authored by Kamila Shamsie, weaves a tale that traverses different eras and continents, beginning in the remnants of the Ottoman Empire during World War I and stretching to British India in the 1930s. The story follows a young Englishwoman and a Pashtun soldier whose lives intersect through a journey entwined with archaeology, history, and colonial tensions. Through richly drawn characters and evocative settings, the novel explores themes of loyalty, empire, and the timeless pursuit of truth.
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You might enjoy this book if you're drawn to historical fiction that elegantly weaves together themes of archaeology, war, and cultural exchange. Set against the backdrop of the early 20th century, it follows characters whose paths converge across empires and epochs, offering a richly textured narrative about loyalty, courage, and the passage of time.

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BY THE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie is highly recommended. Exciting and, in the end, profoundly moving, this will solace you during the grimmest holiday. - Antonia Fraser, Guardian Summer Reading

A magnificent novel: beautiful, terrible, true … It reads already like a classic. - Ali Smith

A moving story of love and betrayal, generosity and brutality, hope and injustice, full of characters that stay with you. - Financial Times

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction

Summer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away, a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army.

Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost an eye at Ypres. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives – one that will reveal itself fifteen years later when anti-colonial resistance, an ancient artefact and a mysterious woman will bring them together again.

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Kamila Shamsie's A God in Every Stone has been highly praised for its intelligent and vivid storytelling, with critics describing it as absorbing and profoundly moving. It's considered a magnificent novel that reads like a classic, and is noted for being both a literary and engaging page-turner. The Financial Times commends it for its exploration of love, betrayal, hope, and injustice, highlighting characters that linger in readers' minds.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526607782

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 September 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 320g

Pages: 400

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Fiction General Fiction Kamila Shamsie Literary Fiction

About the Author

Kamila Shamsie is the author of six novels: In the City by the Sea (shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Salt and Saffron; Kartography (also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Broken Verses; Burnt Shadows (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction) and A God in Every Stone, which was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Home Fire was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award, and won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018. Three of her novels have received awards from Pakistan's Academy of Letters. Kamila Shamsie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist in 2013. She grew up in Karachi and now lives in London.

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