Текст книги "Salt and Saffron"

Автор книги: Kamila Shamsie

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Acknowledgements

I’d like to thank: Saman, for the moment of fear; my parents, for double-checking facts and pointing out errors; my grandmother, Begum Jahanara Habibullah, whose memoirs were a wonderful source of information about courtly life; Marianna Karim, for helping with the historical details (the errors are all mine); Aamer Hussein, for correcting my Urdu, and other such helpful matters; the Haiders, for the lizard stories; Elizabeth Porto, for her insight; and Margaret Halton, for making this into a better book.

A Note on the Author

Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Pakistan. She is the author of In the City by the Sea, Kartography (shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Salt and Saffron, Broken Verses and, most recently, Burnt Shadows, shortlisted for the Orange Prize. In 1999 she received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literature and in 2004 the Patras Bokhari Award – both awarded by the Pakistan Academy of Letters. Kamila Shamsie lives in London.