Author: Shamsie, Kamila
Asia
Published on 25 September 2025 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 224 pages
130 x 198 x 16 | 164g
For every bullet shot by an oppressor there springs to life a starHasan lives an idyllic childhood of abundance: of pomegranates and cricket and ostensible serenity. This illusory veneer of calm is shattered when his beloved uncle Salman, a dissenting politician in a land shackled by a militaristic regime, is charged with treason, under possible penalty of death.
Written with melancholic lyrical beauty and urgency, In the City by the Sea examines the loss of childhood innocence under political oppression.