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The Prophet's Hair

Name: The Prophet's Hair
ISBN: ebook-D7BWy4p

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Secular moneylender and manic collector of treasures, Hashim lives a life of gentle honor until he discovers, washed up to his private quay, a great relic: a silver pendant bearing a strand of t

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Salman Rushdie (1)

“Early in the year 19, when Srinagar was under the spell of a winter so fierce it could crack men’s bones as if they were glass, a young man upon whose cold-pinked skin there lay, like a frost, the unmistakable sheen of wealth was to be seen entering the most wretched and disreputable part of the cit…”

— Salman Rushdie, amazon.com

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