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In this seductive coming-of-age story occur the past due 1970s, a young girl challenges to make sense of the chaos around her during Pakistan's political upheaval, where the military revolts, the embassy burns, and an awful top secret tears her world apart. Eleven-year-old Aliya Shah lives a two times life in Islamabad, Pakistan - aware of her Pakistani daddy and Dutch mom, and at the American School, where Aliya tries to downplay that she actually is a "half-and-half." But when a hit-and-run driver kills the kid of the family's servant, Sadiq, who's also Aliya's dear friend, her world is converted upside down. After she discovers the truth behind the tragedy - an awful top secret that burdens her heart and soul - her conflicted loyalties are tested as nothing you've seen prior. Predicated on the author's own activities growing up in Islamabad, City of Spies offers a poignant and remarkable portrait of an tumultuous time, as seen through the eyes of a courageous and compassionate young heroine struggling to find her put in place the grey area between loyalty and complicity, family and country.

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