Fatima Bhutto with Susan Abulhawa: The Runaways

Join Fatima Bhutto for a discussion of her book Cry Havoc. Fatima is in conversation withSusan Abulhawa. Purchase a copy here: www.strandbooks.com/search-re...
ABOUT THE BOOK
Anita lives in Karachi’s biggest slum. Her mother is a maalish wali, paid to massage the tired bones of rich women. But Anita’s life will change forever when she meets her elderly neighbour, a man whose shelves of books promise an escape to a different world. On the other side of Karachi lives Monty, whose father owns half the city and expects great things of him. But when a beautiful and rebellious girl joins his school, Monty will find his life going in a very different direction. Sunny’s father left India and went to England to give his son the opportunities he never had. Yet Sunny doesn’t fit in anywhere. It’s only when his charismatic cousin comes back into his life that he realises his life could hold more possibilities than he ever imagined.
These three lives will cross in the desert, a place where life and death walk hand in hand, and where their closely guarded secrets will force them to make a terrible choice.
Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and grew up between Syria and Pakistan. She is the author of five previous books of fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, was long listed for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction and the memoir about her father’s life and assassination, Songs of Blood and Sword, was published to acclaim. Her most recent book is The Runaways. She graduated from Barnard with a degree in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and has a Masters in South Asian Government and politics from SOAS. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @fbhutto.
Susan Abulhawa is a novelist, poet, essayist, scientist, mother, and activist. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin (Bloomsbury, 2010), translated into 30 languages, is considered a classic in Anglophile Palestinian literature. Her second novel, The Blue Between Sky and Water (Bloomsbury, 2015), was likewise an international bestseller. Her next book, Against the Loveless World, will be available August 25th. Abulhawa is also the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, a children's organization dedicated to uplifting Palestinian children; and she is co-chair of Palestine Writes, the first North American Palestinian literature festival.
Recorded August 18, 2020

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I research a lot while reading. I don’t expect explanations, I learn SO much when I start digging.

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FATIMA BHUTTO ! Not just a Great writer but a Great Human being and very courageous person just like her Brave father MIR MURTAZA BHUTTO & her grandfather A GREATEST LEADER OF ALL TIME MR. BHUTTO.

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Bhuttos are strong genetically. They never die, they take second birth in their family.Though she has haterd for her elder aunt Benazir Bhutto, but nature had played well with her, she is the an other total copy of Benazir Bhutto, from every her look, her voice and even talking style claim to be of her late aunt.