Beautifully written in cunning, punning, glancing prose IndependentA whirlwind Owes plenty to Salman Rushdie and some to Hollywood Exuberant, knowingly exotic and deceptively serious GuardianKamila Shamsie has created a rich, bright world Times Literary SupplementBY THE ACCLAIMED WINNER OF THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTIONThe DardeDils are characterised by their prominent clavicles and love of stories. Aliya may not have inherited her familys patrician looks, but she is prey to their legends that stretch back to the days of Timur Lang. There is a sting to most of these tales, for the DardeDils consider themselves cursed by their notquite twins. Amidst her growing attraction to a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Aliya begins to believe that she is another notquite twin, linked to her scandalous aunt Mariam in a way that hardly bodes well A funny, clever and romantic story Barbara TrapidoThe stories within the stories describe Pakistani society, its peoples and its mores, better than anything that has come from the Other Side for a long time. This is a good read India Today

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