Thinner than skin
By: by Uzma Aslam Khan
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Clockroot Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Northampton MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781566569088
Subjects: Photographers; Pakistani Americans; Nomads; Fiction
Description: Thinner than Skin is a riveting novel about identity and belonging. It's also a love story: between a young Pakistani man trying to make his way as photographer in America, and the daughter of a Pakistani father and German mother brought up in the US, who wants to return to a country she's never seen. Together they make the trip to Pakistan, where a chance meeting with a young nomad changes their lives, and the lives of those around them, forever. The novel is also a love letter to the wilds of Northern Pakistan, to glaciers, to the old Silk Road, and to the nomadic life of the indigenous people in the Northern territories, where China encroaches and Pakistanis, Uzbeks, Russians, Chinese, and Afghans all come together to trade. Show more Show less.