Durante una excursión a la Cordillera de la Sal, la pequeña Amal y su abuelo, el notable paleontólogo Zahoor, recogen una piedra que esconde en su interior la prueba de las teorías evolutivas que el general Zia insiste en prohibir. Poco después de nacer, Mehwish, la hermana de Amal, pierde la vista: ¿imprudencia paterna o voluntad divina? En cualquier caso, Amal se convertirá en sus ojos y juntas irán descubriendo el otro lado de la realidad y el despertar de la sensualidad y la inteligencia.El joven Noman, hijo de un poderoso líder religioso, encarna como nadie el cotidiano conflicto entre la razón y la religión. Atribulado por el despertar sexual, la conveniente lealtad a su padre y el deslumbramiento ante la bella Amal y el espíritu libre de Zahoor, desencadenará una serie de sucesos que transformarán para siempre la vida de todos los personajes.La nueva novela de Uzma Aslam Khan es una magistral descripción de cómo los anhelos personales pueden moldear y ser moldeados por los grandes conflictos. La geometría de Dios combina el humor y la audacia, es íntima y grandiosa al mismo tiempo.

In the wilds of Northern Pakistan, where glaciers are born of mating ice, two young lovers shatter the tenuous peace of a nomadic communityThinner than Skin is a riveting novel about identity and belonging. It's also a love story: between a young Pakistani man trying to make his way as photographer in America, and the daughter of a Pakistani father and German mother brought up in the US, who wants to return to a country she's never seen. Together they make the trip to Pakistan, where a chance meeting with a young nomad changes their lives, and the lives of those around them, forever. The novel is also a love letter to the wilds of Northern Pakistan, to glaciers, to the old Silk Road, and to the nomadic life of the indigenous people in the Northern territories, where China encroaches and Pakistanis, Uzbeks, Russians, Chinese, and Afghans all come together to trade.Review"In gorgeous prose, Khan writes about Pakistan, a land of breathtaking beauty, and the complex relationships between people who are weighted with grief and estrangement. As her characters' lives play out against the backdrop of the external world whose violence gradually closes in on them, Khan brilliantly probes the fatal limitations of human understanding. A novel of great lucidity and tenderness, filled with splendid descriptions of the land, the people who have always inhabited it, and those who are irresistibly drawn to it."--Therese Soukar Chehade"Smart, fierce, and poignant: perhaps the most exciting novel yet by this very talented writer."--Mohsin Hamid"Smart, fierce, and poignant: perhaps the most exciting novel yet by this very talented writer."---Mohsin Hamid"Smart, fierce, and poignant: perhaps the most exciting novel yet by this very talented writer."---Mohsin HamidAbout the AuthorUzma Aslam Khan is the author of Trespassing and The Geometry of God, both highly acclaimed novels, published around the world. Uzma's story "Ice, Mating" was included in Granta magazine's hugely popular edition on Pakistan. She is the winner of the Bronze Award in the Independent Publishers Book Award, and her previous novel was a Kirkus Best Book of 2009 and a finalist for Foreword Magazine's Best Books of 2009.