Thinner than Skin
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Thinner than Skin is a riveting novel about identity and belonging. It’s also a love story: between Nadir, a Pakistani man trying to make his way as a photographer in America, and Farhana, a Pakistani-American woman who wants to return to a country she’s never seen. Together Nadir and Farhana journey to Pakistan, accompanied by one of her colleagueswho will join her in studying Pakistan’s extraordinary glaciersand by Nadir’s oldest friend. But they are not the only interlopers here: a suspect in a recent bombing has arrived just before them, and the authorities’ hunt for him casts a dangerous shadow over their journey. It is here, in this magnificent landscapewhere glaciers are born of mating icethat a chance meeting with a young nomad will change their lives, and the lives of those around them, forever.
Thinner than Skin is a haunting tribute to these lands, and to the nomadic life of the indigenous people there, where China encroaches and Pakistanis, Uzbeks, Russians, Chinese, and Afghans all come together to trade. It is a work of piercing beauty and intelligence, and an urgent novel for our times.
Uzma Aslam Khan
UZMA ASLAM KHAN is the author of Trespassing and The Geometry of God, both highly acclaimed novels published around the world. Uzma’s story “Ice, Mating” was included in Granta magazine’s hugely popular edition on Pakistan. She is the winner of the Bronze Award in the Independent Publishers Book Awards. The Geometry of God was a Kirkus Best Book of 2009 and a finalist for Foreword magazine’s Best Books of 2009. Visit her online at uzmaaslamkhan.blogspot.com.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Had high hopes, but characters, story did not grab my interest.