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"In (a) magnificent landscape--where anthropomorphic glaciers are born of mating ice--a chance meeting with a young nomad will change lives forever. Thinner Than Skin is a work of piercing beauty and intelligence, and an urgent novel for our times."--Man Asian Jury Prize
"The subtle right-of-passage novel has the virtue of being focussed on the natural wilderness, glaciers and 'everything alive' ... There is power, serenity and grace in the writing of this literary daughter of the great Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz."--Le Monde, France
"Pakistan may not be the easiest place to be these days but this bracing narrative manages to forge a connection with the land's inimitable spirit with a few precision strokes. While it may not be easy to comprehend the land's many moods--a fusion of proud traditions and fickle desires--it takes a really good listener to bring its inherent contradictions to life. Thinner Than Skin acts as a beacon to these inhospitable shores."--Pakistan Daily News
"Thinner Than Skin, about love and borderless states, crystallizes moments on which the world might spin and maps belonging so astutely that it suspends you somewhere between floating and falling. Skin is tinged with a bit of Dostoevsky; guilt, longing, loss and beauty fused with alpine air ... Skin is mesmeric." --The Hindu, India
"There are a few novels that sadden one when they end--not because of the ending itself but because of not wanting to let go of characters whose life one has shared. One example was Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera. The most recent was Thinner Than Skin. In taut, understated prose filled with promise and foreboding, Khan transports the reader to Northern Pakistan near the Chinese border ... She displays the natural beauty and stark, sometimes threatening conditions in this area from the perspective of those who live there and those who are just visiting. Thinner Than Skin is a fascinating introduction to the real life and culture of people in areas usually described only in stereotypical jargon."--Jordan Times
"Thinner Than Skin has elements of quest, thriller, love story and legend, with unconventional characters."--The Star, Toronto
"The event that defines the (characters) springs from an accident born of centuries worth of traditional hospitality. Khan stresses hospitality as a kind of intersection where East meets West but they are ill met in an unequal exchange. Hospitality has many colors, however, and does not fit into a box in Thinner Than Skin; it is a force of destruction, it is shrouded in mystical value and it is also redemptive ... Khan's writing carries urgency and her characteristic brevity keeps the rub close at hand ... it leaves you raw and chapped but also revived in the way that only those books that get under your skin can."--Biblio
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