Copyright © 2005 by Kamila Shamsie
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First published in Great Britain in 2005 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Shamsie, Kamila, 1973–
Broken verses/Kamila Shamsie.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
“A Harvest original.”
1. Women political activists—Fiction. 2. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 3. Missing persons—Fiction. 4. Letter writing—Fiction. 5. Young women—Fiction. 6. Pakistan—Fiction. I. Title.
PR9540.9.S485B76 2005
823'.914—dc22 2004021330
ISBN 0-15-603053-5
eISBN 978-0-547-53782-5
v1.0513
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, organizations, and events are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.