Impunity: The gripping new novel from the Women's Prize-Winning author of HOME FIRE
May 2027 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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'A searing, immaculately written novel about family, power, accountability and the loss of innocence' LOUISE KENNEDY
'This is Shamsie's masterpiece' KIRAN DESAI
Nyla's family is powerful, admired, influential: the toast, in her eyes, of 1970s Karachi. The man responsible for their continued success is her revered Uncle, a man obsessed with order and art, status and politics. Then a girl appears in her garden - a girl very close to her age, with a name not unlike her own. This brief, thrilling encounter will fracture Nyla's understanding of the world her Uncle has painted, and set her on a dangerous path.
Over the next years, as she comes of age in a country tipping into political unrest, Nyla will realise that attempting to unpick the past, she is playing a dangerous game in the present - a game her Uncle has been playing for far longer than she has.
A gripping family drama, Impunity is a modern masterpiece, exploring the price of freedom in a family whose rotten roots run deep.
'This is Shamsie's masterpiece' KIRAN DESAI
Nyla's family is powerful, admired, influential: the toast, in her eyes, of 1970s Karachi. The man responsible for their continued success is her revered Uncle, a man obsessed with order and art, status and politics. Then a girl appears in her garden - a girl very close to her age, with a name not unlike her own. This brief, thrilling encounter will fracture Nyla's understanding of the world her Uncle has painted, and set her on a dangerous path.
Over the next years, as she comes of age in a country tipping into political unrest, Nyla will realise that attempting to unpick the past, she is playing a dangerous game in the present - a game her Uncle has been playing for far longer than she has.
A gripping family drama, Impunity is a modern masterpiece, exploring the price of freedom in a family whose rotten roots run deep.
'A searing, immaculately written novel about family, power, accountability and the loss of innocence' LOUISE KENNEDY
'This is Shamsie's masterpiece' KIRAN DESAI
Nyla's family is powerful, admired, influential: the toast, in her eyes, of 1970s Karachi. The man responsible for their continued suc...
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About the author
Kamila Shamsie is the author of eight previous novels, including Best of Friends, Burnt Shadows and Home Fire, which won the Women's Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and longlisted for the Booker Prize. She is a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature, and her novels have been translated into over 30 languages. She grew up in Karachi, and now lives in London.
Kamila Shamsie is the author of eight previous novels, including Best of Friends, Burnt Shadows and Home Fire, which won the Women's Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and longlisted for the Booker Prize. She is a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature, and her nove...
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