A SPLINTERING: Dur e Aziz Amna in conversation

We are delighted to welcome Dur e Aziz Amna to Blackwell's in collaboration with  to hear Dure discuss her novel, A Splintering, a story of a woman caught between motherhood and ambition. Dure will be in conversation with Mishika Narula.

Doors: 6.30pm, Start: 6.45pm

Tickets are £4 or free when purchasing a copy of the book as a Book & Ticket option or in store.

About the book:

In a village in rural Pakistan, Tara is waiting and watching. The smell of dung and dust hangs over her world. She is desperate to leave the petty life of the village and escape the iron grip of her violent, unpredictable brother.

Marrying a middle-class accountant allows her to escape to the capital, but she soon finds that life as a respectable housewife is not sufficient either. She wants what the rich mothers at her children’s school have. She wants what their husbands have. Her desire for wealth and freedom becomes an obsession.

But can she truly shake her past? And what of the menacing spectre of her brother, a reminder of the threads that tie her to the life she left behind?

About the author:

Dur e Aziz Amna is the author of American Fever, winner of the 2023 South Asian Book Award and the APALA Award for Literature, as well as the forthcoming novel A Splintering. Her work appears in the New York Times, Financial Times, and Al Jazeera, among others. She was selected as Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2022 and won the 2021 Salam Prize and the the 2019 Financial Times / Bodley Head Essay Prize. She is a graduate of Yale College and the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan. Born and raised in Pakistan, she now resides in the US.

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