Best of Friends
- Publisher : Bloomsbury India
- Publishing year : September 2022
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9781526660534
- Imprint : Bloomsbury
- Age Group : Adult
- Language : English
A dazzling new novel of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people - from the international bestselling ...
A dazzling new novel of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people - from the international bestselling author of Home Fire, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Fourteen-year-old Maryam and Zahra have always been the best of friends, despite their different backgrounds. Maryam takes for granted that she will stay in Karachi and inherit the family business; while Zahra keeps her desires secret, and dreams of escaping abroad.
This year, 1988, anything seems possible for the girls; and for Pakistan, emerging from the darkness of dictatorship into a bright future under another young woman, Benazir Bhutto. But a snap decision at a party celebrating the return of democracy brings the girls' childhoods abruptly to an end. Its consequences will shape their futures in ways they cannot imagine.
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