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A God in Every Stone

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A God in Every Stone

By: Kamila Shamsie
Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
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Bloomsbury presents A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie, read by Tania Rodrigues.

BY THE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
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'I can’t recommend A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie too strongly ... Exciting and, in the end, profoundly moving, this will solace you during the grimmest holiday' – Antonia Fraser, Guardian Summer Reading

'A magnificent novel: beautiful, terrible, true … It reads already like a classic' – Ali Smith

'A moving story of love and betrayal, generosity and brutality, hope and injustice, full of characters that stay with you' – Financial Times
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Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction

Summer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army. Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost an eye at Ypres. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives – one that will reveal itself fifteen years later when anti-colonial resistance, an ancient artefact and a mysterious woman will bring them together again.

©2023 Kamila Shamsie (P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Islamic Heritage Literary Fiction

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Critic reviews

'I can’t recommend A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie too strongly.... Exciting and, in the end, profoundly moving, this will solace you during the grimmest holiday' - Antonia Fraser, Guardian Summer Reading

'A magnificent novel: beautiful, terrible, true.... It reads already like a classic' - Ali Smith

'A moving story of love and betrayal, generosity and brutality, hope and injustice, full of characters that stay with you' - Financial Times

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Beautifully read, captivating tale set in England, Europe and pre-Partition India 1914-30. Well worth your time.

Stunning performance from both writer and reader

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I found this story engaging at the beginning and during descriptions of the WW1 Indian patients being looked after in the Brighton Pavilion, which was converted into a wartime hospital. When the story leaps forwards to 1930s India and Peshawar - now Pakistan - I couldn’t keep up with the names and what was going on. I lost interest in the complexity of the story with its references to ancient history mixed in with the terrible massacre by British forces on rebelling Indian citizens. Overall I was disappointed as it sounded like a very interesting story but it was too muddled for me.

Too complex

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