About this Event
Each month Bri appears in conversation with a contemporary author. This month we are thrilled to welcome to the State Library of NSW acclaimed British writer Kamila Shamsie to discuss her new novel, Best of Friends.
Best of Friends is a dazzling new novel of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people from the international bestselling author of Home Fire, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
In 1988 Karachi, two 14-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship, sharing in-jokes, secrets and a love for George Michael. As Pakistan’s dictatorship falls and a woman comes to power, the world suddenly seems full of possibilities. Elated by the change in the air, they make a snap decision at a party. That night, everything goes wrong, and the two girls are powerless to change the outcome.
In present-day London, two influential women remain bound together by loyalties, disloyalties, and the memory of that night, which echoes through the present in unexpected ways. Now both have power; and both have very different ideas of how to wield it… Their friendship has always felt unbreakable; can it be undone by one decision?
Please note: this month's B List is live at the Library only, and will not be streamed via Zoom.
Kamila Shamsie is the author of eight novels, which have been translated into over 30 languages, including Burnt Shadows and A God in Every Stone. Her previous novel Home Fire won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Award for International Book. A Vice-President and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, she was one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’ in 2013. She grew up in Karachi, and now lives in London.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
State Library of New South Wales, Gallery Room, Ground Floor, Mitchell Building, Sydney, Australia
AUD 20.00
