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![]() ![]() ""Having traveled to Asia and the Middle East while working for the British council, Joinson knows what it's like to be a stranger far from home. But she makes these themes her own."-Sara Wheeler, "The New York Times Book Review""At its heart, this exquisite novel celebrates the gifts that travel into far-off cultures confers: the displacements that throw into resilient relief our transcendent human connections."-"National Geographic Traveler," Book of the Month Through Frieda and Eva and their companions, Joinson explores notions of freedom, rootlessness, dislocation - any writer's reliable arsenal. illuminates her narrative with a playfulness that borders on the Gothic. Joinson also has a gift for evoking finely calibrated shifts of feeling. Joinson, who has herself traveled widely on behalf of the British council, controls her narrative with skill: this is an impressive debut, its prose as lucid and deep as a mountain lake. ![]() "The dramatic opening of Suzanne Joinson's thrilling and densely plotted first novel offers only a suggestion of the tumult to come. Advance Praise for A LADY CYCLIST'S GUIDE TO KASHGAR: ![]()
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