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Salt and Saffron

Salt and Saffron

Author(s): Kamila Shamsie

Location(s): Karachi

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): contemporary

Aliya may not have inherited her family’s patrician looks, but she is as much a prey to the legends of her family that stretch back to the days of Timur Lang. Aristocratic and eccentric-the clan has plenty of stories to tell, and secrets to hide.
Like salt and saffron, which both flavor food but in slightly different ways, it is the small, subtle differences that cause the most trouble in Aliya’s family. The family problems and scandals caused by these minute differences echo the history of the sub-continent and the story of Partition.

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