If in her last work, Home Fire, the politics of immigration and extremism shaped the novel’s space, time and the core of its characters, in this new work, the political is - for a large part - an underlying but constant fact. The latter is, of course, a critical theme in Shamsie’s later works. Kamila Shamsie’s latest novel is a compelling work that, once again, exhibits her range, verve and her unrelenting ethical impulse Quieter, more gradual and less overtly political than Shamsie’s defiant bestseller Home Fire, which came out in 2017, Best of Friends is a foray into the world of two elite Pakistani women as they venture from girlhood to adulthood and whose lives, despite personal and professional successes, remain fraught with the politics of citizenry and belonging. In her eighth - and unsettlingly candid - novel Best of Friends, Kamila Shamsie takes on seemingly picture-perfect female friendships, those ostensibly eternal relationships idealised frequently on Instagram, TikTok and other social media outlets.įrom the Karachi of the 1980s to a London newly transformed by the Covid-19 pandemic, Best of Friends forces its readers to rethink the images of innocence, selfless love, self-discovery and heady fun that they have long associated with women who have been ‘best friends’ since middle- or primary school. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Can you be best friends with someone whose politics you despise? Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. ![]() Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: ![]() Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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