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For this edition of 'Talking Books: On the Road' Razia Iqbal is in Pakistan for the Lahore Literary Festival. Her guest is the Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie.

For this edition of 'Talking Books: On the Road' Razia Iqbal is in Pakistan for the Lahore Literary Festival. Her guest is the Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie. Kamila Shamsie has written a lot about her home city of Karachi but her last two novels have spanned several continents and decades in history from Nagasaki to 9/11, from the excavation of India's ancient history to its nascent independence movement via the Great War. She talks to Razia Iqbal about why she is drawn the the themes of loyalty and belonging.

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Sun 14 Dec 2014 21:30GMT

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