by Kamila Shamsie · Bloomsbury Circus · tapa dura · ISBN 9781526647702
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«Best of Friends» is the contemporary fiction novel by Kamila Shamsie, published by Bloomsbury Circus in hardcover (272 pages, in English).
Maryam and Zahra have been friends since childhood in Karachi, where they share secrets and admiration for George Michael. An impulsive decision at a party, as Pakistan's dictatorship falls, changes their lives. Now adults and influential in London, the reappearance of two figures from their past forces them to confront their differences and question their friendship.
Novel published in 2022; its author, Kamila Shamsie, won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 for Home Fire.
Aimed at readers of literary fiction and book clubs interested in female friendship, identity, and the intersection of the political and the personal.
Kamila Shamsie is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist who is best known for her award-winning novel Home Fire (2017). Named on Granta magazine's list of 20 best young British writers, Shamsie has been described by The New Indian Express as "a novelist to reckon with and to look forward to." She also writes for publications including The Guardian, New Statesman, Index on Censorship and Prospect, and broadcasts on radio.
