Thinner Than Skin
Uzma Aslam Khan
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars
3.25
· 4 ratings · 421 pages · Published: 01 Jan 2012
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.
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