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Salt And Saffron
Kamila Shamsie
For Aliya, stories of her family’s past are just amusing anecdotes. Only one aspect of her inheritance interests her – the story that her family has erased from its history, that of Mariam, whose appearance coincided with Aliya’s birth and whose fate was sealed when she decided to follow her heart.
Kamila Shamsie on Granta.com
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Issue 123
Vipers
Kamila Shamsie
‘Cover your nose and mouth, the order came, swift and useless; if they’d had their turbans they would have wound them around their faces but there were only the balaclavas.’
