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"Ingenious⁵ Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century." ₇The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequen...

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Autor principal: Shamsie, Kamila, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Livro
Idioma:English
Publicado em: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018
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