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multibeautiful2011-06-05 01:52 pm
nanila) wrote in multibeautiful2011-06-05 01:52 pm
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Kamila Shamsie
Pakistani novelist. Her most recent book Burnt Shadows effortlessly spans continents, cultures and generations. It includes the most subtle and sensitive portrayals of moderate Muslim life and mixed-race marriage that I’ve ever encountered. It is beautiful and captivating, and if I had my way, everyone would read it.
“War is like disease. Until you’ve had it you don’t know it. But no. That’s a bad comparison. At least with disease everyone thinks it might happen to them one day. You have a pain here, swelling there, a cold which stays and stays. You start to think maybe this is something really bad. But war — countries like yours they always fight wars, but always somewhere else. It’s why you fight more wars than anyone else; because you understand war least of all.” -- from Burnt Shadows
“War is like disease. Until you’ve had it you don’t know it. But no. That’s a bad comparison. At least with disease everyone thinks it might happen to them one day. You have a pain here, swelling there, a cold which stays and stays. You start to think maybe this is something really bad. But war — countries like yours they always fight wars, but always somewhere else. It’s why you fight more wars than anyone else; because you understand war least of all.” -- from Burnt Shadows