BookDragon Salt and Saffron Tag

23 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Pakistani, South Asian

First an interruption: I learned a very entertaining meaning for a certain common(-ish) word on the first page of Shamsie's second novel: 'bugaboo.' "It's a word that demands to be said out loud," writes Shamsie, "particularly among bilingual Pakistanis who recognize its resemblance to 'baghal...