About the Book: Salt and Saffron
The Dard-e-Dils are known for their clavicles and love of stories. The family is
cursed by its not-quite twins, and Aliya, prey to her familys legends, begins to
believe that she is another "not-quite twin", cosmically connected with her aunt
Mariam in a way that hardly bodes well
About the Author: Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie is the author of six novels: In the City by the Sea; Kartography
(both shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Salt and Saffron; Broken
Verses; Burnt Shadows (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction) and, most
recently, A God in Every Stone, which was shortlisted for