Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City - Softcover

Shackle, Samira

 
9781783785407: Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City

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In this powerful debut, Samira Shackle explores the city of her mother's birth in the company of a handful of Karachiites. As their individual experiences unfold, so Shackle tells the bigger story of Karachi over the past decade: a period in which the Taliban arrive in Pakistan, adding to the residents' daily perils and pushing their city into the international spotlight.

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SAMIRA SHACKLE is the editor of New Humanist magazine and a regular contributor to the Guardian Long Read She travels regularly to Pakistan, where she has family, and spent extensive time there working on the book. Karachi Vice is her debut.

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A fast-paced journey around Karachi in the company of those who know the city inside out - from an electrifying new voice in narrative non-fiction.

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