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About the Author
Aamer Hussein was born in Karachi in 1955 and moved to London in the early 1970s. He is a fellow at the Royal Society of Literature and reviews regularly for the Independent.

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Book Info

978-1-84659-056-6
Fiction
May 2009
Paperback with flaps
13 x 20 cm
104 pages
£6.99

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'Framed in distilled prose, this is a moving fable about this slow and sometimes startling growth of love. A slender delight.'
Financial Times

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Once again, his aunt had given him stale bread and rancid buttermilk. He was eating and drinking when he felt something tickle his left knee. He looked down. A little green frog was perched there.

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