<div>Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Cricket Book of the Year 2023 Jazbaa - Definition: spirit, feeling, passion, desire, sentiment, emotion In 1996, Shaiza Khan led a Pakistan team on a tour of New Zealand and Australia. While the tour was a failure on the cricketing front, the singular act of eleven women wearing flannels and battling for victory in the faraway antipodes was a significant achievement. These women had – individually and collectively – worked to throw off the shackles of social and cultural decrees that had conspired to keep Pakistani women away from sport for years. Even more importantly, these players were harbingers of change who became heroic role models for women back home and all around the world. Unveiling Jazbaa tells the story of Pakistan’s women’s cricket, detailing the extraordinary journey the players have been on to bring about change both in their country and in the sport itself. This is a tale told through the lens of society and politics, of personal battles and triumphs against the odds, of friendships and rivalries, of favours and revenge. Above all else, it is story of bravery and unerring will and a moving testimony to power of the human spirit. Foreword by Kamila Shamsie 'Compelling, ambitious, beautifully written and about so much more than cricket' – Tim Wigmore, The Telegraph and author of the multiple award-winning Cricket 2.0</div>

Unveiling Jazbaa

<div>A new literary journal arrives on the scene with unpublished works from such superstars as Dave Eggers, Louise Erdrich, Haruki Murakami, and others. In this inaugural edition of Freeman&rsquo;s, a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta editor and NBCC president John Freeman brings together the best new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about that electrifying moment when we arrive. Strange encounters abound. David Mitchell meets a ghost in Hiroshima Prefecture; Lydia Davis recounts her travels in the exotic territory of the Norwegian language; and in a Dave Eggers story, an elderly gentleman cannot remember why he brought a fork to a wedding. End points often turn out to be new beginnings. Louise Erdrich visits a Native American cemetery that celebrates the next journey, and in a Haruki Murakami story, an aging actor arrives back in his true self after performing a role, discovering he has changed, becoming a new person. Featuring startling new fiction by Laura van den Berg, Helen Simpson, and Tahmima Anam, as well as stirring essays by Aleksandar Hemon, Barry Lopez, and Garnette Cadogan, who relearned how to walk while being black upon arriving in NYC, Freeman&rsquo;s announces the arrival of an essential map to the best new writing in the world. &ldquo;A terrific anthology . . . Haruki Murakami, David Mitchell and a host of other lively writers let loose their imaginations in editor John Freeman&rsquo;s first outing with a new literary journal that is sure to become a classic in years to come.&rdquo; &mdash;San Francisco Chronicle</div>

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<div>A &ldquo;gorgeous novel&rdquo; of two upper-class Pakistani families and the complicated love that develops between their children, by the author of Home Fire (Los Angeles Times). Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi. Their parents were even once engaged to one another&rsquo;s partners, until they rematched in what they call &ldquo;the fianc&eacute;e swap.&rdquo; But as adolescence distances the friends, Karim takes refuge in maps while Raheen searches for the secret behind her parents&rsquo; exchange. What she uncovers reveals not just a family&rsquo;s turbulent history, but also a country&rsquo;s&mdash;and now a grown-up Raheen and Karim are caught between strained friendship and fated love. A love story with a family mystery at its heart, from an author named as one of the Orange Prize&rsquo;s &ldquo;21 Writers for the 21st Century,&rdquo; Kartography transports readers to a world not often seen in fiction: vibrant, dangerous, sensuous Pakistan. &ldquo;[Shamsie] has been described as a young Anita Desai, and her third book, about childhood, love, life and high society in Karachi during the turbulent 1990s, is worth all the prepublication fuss.&rdquo; &mdash;Harper&rsquo;s Bazaar &ldquo;[Shamsie] packs her story with the playful evidence of her high-flying intelligence.&rdquo; &mdash;San Francisco Chronicle &ldquo;E. M. Forster&rsquo;s famous plea&mdash;&lsquo;only connect&rsquo;&mdash;reverberates passionately throughout this forceful tale of childhood, love and the power of story-telling.&rdquo; &mdash;The Independent (UK) &ldquo;Deftly woven, provocative . . . Shamsie&rsquo;s blistering humor and ear for dialogue scorches through [a] whirl of whiskey and witticisms.&rdquo; &mdash;The Observer (UK) &ldquo;A shimmering, quick-witted lament and love story . . . Rich in emotional coloratura and wordplay.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review &ldquo;Its artful uncovering of how people hide from themselves and one another . . . echoes Arundhati Roy&rsquo;s The God of Small Things.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

Kartography

<div>A Pakistani woman finds a new clue to her mother&rsquo;s long-ago disappearance in this &ldquo;thoroughly captivating&rdquo;novel by the award-winning author of Home Fire (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan&rsquo;s greatest poet, had been beaten to death by government thugs. Now, in present-day Karachi, her daughter Aasmaani has just discovered a letter in the couple&rsquo;s private code&mdash;a letter that could only have been written recently. Aasmaani is thirty, single, drifting from job to job. Always left behind whenever Samina followed the Poet into exile, she had assumed that her mother&rsquo;s disappearance was simply another abandonment. Then, while working at Pakistan&rsquo;s first independent TV station, Aasmaani runs into an old friend of Samina&rsquo;s who gives her the first letter, then many more. Where could the letters have come from? And will they lead her to her mother? Merging the personal with the political, Broken Verses is at once a sharp, thrilling journey through modern-day Pakistan, a carefully coded mystery, and an intimate mother-daughter story that asks how we forgive a mother who leaves. &ldquo;There is a succulent pleasure to the narrative that draws you happily to its end.&rdquo;&mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;All of Shamsie&rsquo;s novels are deeply moving and morally complex, leading to the kind of rich reading experience most of us hope for in every novel we pick up.&rdquo; &mdash;San Francisco Chronicle</div>

Broken Verses

<div> Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows is a story for our time by "a writer of immense ambition and strength. . . . This is an absorbing novel that commands in the reader a powerful emotional and intellectual response" -Salman Rushdie. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award An Orange Prize Finalist Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he leaves. Sunlight streams across Urakami Valley, and then the world goes white. In the devastating aftermath of the atomic bomb, Hiroko leaves Japan in search of new beginnings. From Delhi, amid India's cry for independence from British colonial rule, to New York City in the immediate wake of 9/11, to the novel's astonishing climax in Afghanistan, a violent history casts its shadow the entire world over. Sweeping in its scope and mesmerizing in its evocation of time and place, this is a tale of love and war, of three generations, and three world-changing historic events.</div>

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