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Kamila Shamsie - pisarka pakistańska, tworząca w języku angielskim. Wychowała się w Karaczi. Jej pierwsza powieść, In the City by the Sea, napisana jeszcze na studiach , została opublikowana w 1998 w Indiach i w Anglii, a w 1999 otrzymała Nagrodę Literacką Premiera Pakistanu. Dwie późniejsze powieści Shamsie, Kartography i Broken Verses, otrzymały Nagrodę Patras Bukhari pakistańskiej Akademii Literatury, a piąta z kolei, "Burnt Shadows", uzyskała nominację do nagrody Orange Prize.

Sól i szafran opowiada dzieje arystokratycznej rodziny nababów Dard-e-Dil; narratorką jest odbywająca studia w Ameryce Aliya.

✵ 13. Sierpień 1973
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Kamila Shamsie: 18   Cytatów 0   Polubień

Kamila Shamsie: Cytaty po angielsku

“For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?”

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Kamila Shamsie

Źródło: Kartography

“There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.”

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Źródło: Broken Verses

“They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.”

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Źródło: Kartography

“If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.”

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Kamila Shamsie

Źródło: Kartography

“How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That’s when you know, I will never die of a broken heart.”

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Kamila Shamsie

Źródło: Salt and Saffron

“Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?"
"Cant help it. It's the company I keep.”

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Źródło: Kartography

“We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.”

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“So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.”

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Kamila Shamsie książka Burnt Shadows

Źródło: Burnt Shadows

“How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.”

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Kamila Shamsie książka Burnt Shadows

Źródło: Burnt Shadows

“How do you eat your roots?”

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Kamila Shamsie

Źródło: Kartography

“Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.”

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Kamila Shamsie

Źródło: Salt and Saffron

“…I am absolutely not someone who thinks that politics is separate from the most intimate details of people’s lives…”

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Źródło: On how politics still seeps into peoples’ personal lives in “INTERVIEWS: Kamila Shamsie” https://bookpage.com/interviews/21570-kamila-shamsie-fiction#.Xc2ItmNKjcs in BookPage (2017 Aug 1)

“I tend to be an optimist about human nature but a political pessimist…I think we’re living in very, very scary times and we have to find ways of looking squarely at it and finding reasons for optimism.”

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Źródło: On balancing pessimism and optimism in “Kamila Shamsie: 'We have to find reasons for optimism’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/08/kamila-shamsie-we-have-to-find-reasons-for-optimism-home-fire in The Guardian (2018 Jun 8)

“I don’t have much time for the idea that art is some languorous thing on the sidelines, and that you have to wait 50 years before you address a subject…”

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Źródło: On writing about a topic even if it is recent in “Kamila Shamsie: ‘Being a UK citizen makes me feel more able to take part in the conversation’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/27/kamila-shamsie-home-fire-man-booker-longlisted-author-interview in The Guardian (2017 Aug 27)

“The thing you know in the abstract, but which you have to see, is the vastness of the place and how little relationship one side of it has to another. Mostly, the landscape is just unbelievably beautiful. You do a lot of looking and not that much thinking.”

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Źródło: On living and travelling throughout the United States in “THE SRB INTERVIEW: Kamila Shamsie” https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/2018/08/the-srb-interview-kamila-shamsie/ in The Scottish Review of Books (2018 Aug 11)

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