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- Print length 320 pages
- Language English
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing India Private Limited
- Publication date 1 January 2014
- Dimensions 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
- ISBN-10 9382951512
- ISBN-13 978-9382951513
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- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing India Private Limited (1 January 2014)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9382951512
- ISBN-13 : 978-9382951513
- Item Weight : 570 g
- Dimensions : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
- Net Quantity : 1.00 count
- #44,194 in Contemporary Fiction (Books)
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Kamila shamsie.
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The Resistance of Unarmed C haracters in Shamsie's A God in. Every Stone: A Critical Analysis. Dr. Muhammad Imran*; Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Khwaja Fareed ...
A God in Every Stone transports the reader from the killing fields of Flanders in 1915 to the bloody Peshawar massacre of 1930, while digging through ancient discoveries that intertwine with the dramatic events of the present. Young London archeologist Vivian Rose Spencer, fascinated by the history of ancient empires, joins a dig in Turkey in ...
The god in this book, besides being in every stone, lies in the details. Furthermore, the characters are refreshingly relatable as they struggle with their inner demons to move ahead.
Abstract: This research work is an attempt to analyze the texts of Kamila Shamsie's A God in Every Stone thematically with underlying ideas which reflect the conditions of Pashtuns and revolve around the idea of identity and voices. The researcher has used Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak theory of subalternity, presented in Can
work A God in Every Stone was shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize. In 2013 she was included in the Granta list of 20 best young British writers. II. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: The questions that I confront include how the feminine consciousness of a third world woman is constructed in regards with cultural practices in the twenty first ...
What follows is an evocative tale fusing history and passion, conflict and friendship; that is as absorbing as it is thought-provoking. Unlike other novels set around the time of WW1, A God in Every Stone looks at the impact and aftermath of the war beyond European territories - specifically at British-ruled India - giving readers an ...
writers make worlds. An open educational resource hub for Black and Asian British writing today. Featured works, Summary, context and history Kamila Shamsie. Kamila Shamsie's audacious and affecting A God in Every Stone ranges across continents and histories, from the fifth-century reign of Persian King Darius, through to the suffrage ...
In the spirit of E.M. Forster and his own attempt at fusing east and west in A Passage to India, Shamsie portrays Najeeb as the successor to the Englishwoman's vision of the region. "What he most ...
Books. A God in Every Stone: A Novel. Kamila Shamsie. Atavist Books, Jul 1, 2014 - Fiction - 336 pages. A kaleidoscopic masterpiece of empire and rebellion by Kamila Shamsie, the Orange Prize shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British Novelist In the summer of 1914 a young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer, finds herself fulfilling a dream by ...
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 ...
Atavist Books. 2014. 336 pages. To put this book in any specific genre would be an injustice. A God in Every Stone is firstly a historical fiction, outlining lands long forgotten but legacies forever remembered. It gives the histories of Turkey and Pakistan but places them in the context of a World War I-stricken Europe. It is also a travel ...
Kamila Shamsie's A God in Every Stone (2014) is one of the best examples of cultural chromatology that Kamila Shamsie, one of the reputed Pakistani writers brings to light through archeology and excavations. Shamsie uncovers the ancient Persian, Greek, Buddhist, Muslim and European cultures. Shamsie connects the cultural aspects with the ...
There is an epic quality to A God in Every Stone. Shamsie begins with a love story, and encompasses a variety of subjects including war, colonialism, nationalism, gender and archaeology without ...
A God in Every Stone is Kamila Shamsie's fifth novel. It is set at the time of World War I and before the partition of the Indian sub-continent into India and Pakistan. It is about an Englishwoman archaeologist, Vivian Rose Spencer, and her meeting with her discovery of the Temple of Zeus and Ypres war veteran, twenty-two-year-old Qayyum Gul ...
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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.
A God in Every Stone. Written by Kamila Shamsie. Review by Kristina Blank Makansi. While working on a dig in Turkey with a family friend, Vivian Rose Spencer, a young Englishwoman, falls in love with both archaeology and the archaeologist, Tahsin Bey. When World War I interrupts their plans, Vivian returns home and works as a nurse, always ...
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 ...
Description. In the summer of 1914 a young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer, joins an archaeological dig in Turkey, fulfilling a long-held dream. Working alongside Germans and Turks, she falls in love with archaeologist Tahsin Bey and joins him in his quest to find an ancient silver circlet. But the outbreak of war in Europe brings her idyllic ...
"An heir to E.M. Forster's vision . . . Stretching from the ancient Persian Empire to the waning days of the British Empire, the novel has an enormous wingspan that catches a wonderful storyteller's wind . . . beautifully composed, and often terribly moving." ―Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered, NPR "I can't recommend A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie too strongly--this is her ...
Kamila Shamsie 's new novel, A God in Every Stone, is set in the early decades of the 20th century, largely in British-occupied Peshawar, with a few interludes in London. As with any ambitious ...
A God In Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie is a narrative about camaraderie, inequality, adoration and unfaithfulness.An adolescent English woman is sprinting up an antique mountainside that is decorated with figs and cypress trees. This woman, Vivian Rose Spencer, does not know that ultimately she will discern the Temple of Zeus and find her ...