Thinner Than Skin

by Uzma Aslam Khan

  —Times Literary Supplement

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  Thinner Than Skin

  Text copyright © 2012 by Uzma Aslam Khan.

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  EPub Edition © OCTOBER 2012 ISBN: 978-1-443-41337-4

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  First published in the United States in 2012 by Clockroot Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc.

  FIRST CANADIAN EDITION

  Grateful acknowledgment is made to Granta and to The Massachusetts Review, where excerpts of this novel have appeared, titled respectively “Ice, Mating” and “The News at His Back.”

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  Khan, Uzma Aslam

  Thinner than skin / Uzma Aslam Khan.

  ISBN 978-1-44341-335-0

  I. Title.

  PR9499.3.K429T55 2012 823’.92 C2012-903098-8

  RRD 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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