Due to extenuating circumstances on the part of the speaker, this event is canceled. We will let you know once a new date is finalized.
The Institute and Pakistan@Berkeley, a campaign to broaden and deepen Pakistan related research, teaching and programming at UC Berkeley, are proud to announce the eleventh “Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture on Pakistan” by the award winning writer and novelist, Kamila Shamsie.
Join us as the acclaimed Pakistani writer talks about her craft, and journey, and her latest novel, Best of Friends, with Harsha Ram, Associate Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley.
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This event will be live streamed on the Institute’s FB page: ISASatUCBerkeley
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About the Book
Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though—or maybe because—they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future.
Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have each cut a distinctive path through London. But when two troubling figures from their past resurface, they must finally confront their bedrock differences—and find out whether their friendship can survive.
Thought-provoking, compassionate, and full of unexpected turns, Best of Friends offers a riveting take on an age-old question: Does principle or loyalty make for the better friend?
Author Bio
Kamila Shamsie is the author of eight novels, which have been translated into over 30 languages, including Burnt Shadows and A God in Every Stone. Her previous novel Home Fire won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, was long listed for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Award for International Book. A Vice-President and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, she was one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’ in 2013. She grew up in Karachi, and now lives in London. Her new novel is Best of Friends, published in September 2022.
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The event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
