About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherAbrams, Inc.

ISBN-101468308025

ISBN-139781468308020

eBay Product ID (ePID)168672388

Product Key Features

Book TitleKashmir Shawl : a Novel

Number of Pages480 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicRomance / General

Publication Year2013

GenreFiction

AuthorRosie Thomas

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.8 in

Item Weight13 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"Thomas's novels are beautifully written." -- Marie Claire "A master storyteller." -- Cosmopolitan "Rosie Thomas writes with beautiful, effortless prose, and shows a rare compassion and a real understanding of the nature of love." -- The Times, "Thomas's novels are beautifully written." -- Marie Claire "A master storyteller." -- Cosmopolitan "Rosie Thomas writes with beautiful, effortless prose, and shows a rare compassion and a real understanding of the nature of love." -- The Times

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal823/.914

SynopsisA sweeping multigenerational tale of marriage, isolation, and finding love in a magical place, The Kashmir Shawl is award-winning author Rosie Thomas at her very best. Nerys's granddaughter Mair Ellis clears out her dead father's house and finds an exquisite shawl. Wrapped in its folds is a lock of a child's curly hair. With nothing else to go on, Mair decides to trace her grandparents' roots back to Kashmir, embarking on a quest that will change her own life forever., On the eve of 1941, newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Britain to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to the exotic city of Srinagar, India. But when he leaves to take on a complicated mission elsewhere, Nerys discovers a new world. Here, in the heart of Kashmir, the British dance, flirt, and gossip against the backdrop of war, and Neryssoon becomes caught up in a dangerous liaison., By the time she is reunited with her husband, she is a very different woman. Years later, Nerys's granddaughter Mair Ellis clears out her dead father's house and finds an exquisite shawl. Wrapped in its folds is a lock of a child's curly hair. With nothing else to go on, Mair decides to trace her grandparents' roots back to Kashmir, embarking on a quest thatwill change her own life forever. A sweeping multigenerational tale of marriage, isolation, and finding love in a magical place, The Kashmir Shawl is the inimitable Rosie Thomas at her very best.

LC Classification NumberPR6070.H655