In an unnamed town in England, Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared - and Chanda's brothers have been arrested for their murder. What follows is an unravelling of all that is sacred to the family, as the pious Kaukab tries desperately to square the traditional justice of her culture with the more personal consequences of their murder. 'Maps for Lost Lovers' opens the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, community, nationality and religion and expresses their pain and desire in a language that is arrestingly poetic.

Maps for Lost Lovers

Literature & Fiction

Nadeem, Aslam

Contemporary

Faber and Faber Ltd.

At the heart of this extraordinary novel lies the character of Kaukab, a wife and mother increasingly out of touch with those she loves most: her homeland, her husband and her three increasingly estranged and westernised children. Her faith in her religion and family is her only support. The disappearance of her brother-in-law Jugnu and his lover Chanda and their suspected murder forms the dramatic backdrop for a year of turmoil in the life of Kaukab's splintering family. Maps for Lost Lovers opens the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, community, nationality and religion, and expresses both their joys and their pain in a language that is arrestingly poetic.

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A sack of letters lost in a train crash nineteen years previously has mysteriously reappeared, and the inhabitants of a small town in Pakistan are waiting anxiously to see what long-buried secrets will come to light. Could the letters have any bearing on Judge Anwar's murder? In one of the most exquisite fictional debuts of recent years, Nadeem Aslam creates an exotic and timeless world, but one whose traditional rituals of everyday life are played out against an ominous backdrop of faraway civil wars, assassinations, changing regimes and religious tensions.

Season of the Rain Birds

The Wasted Vigil

The author of Maps for Lost Lovers gives us a new novel—at once lyrical and blistering—about war in our time, told through the lives of five people who come together in post-9/11 Afghanistan.Marcus, an English doctor whose progressive, outspoken Afghani wife was murdered by the Taliban, opens his home—itself an eerily beautiful monument to his losses—to the others: Lara, from St. Petersburg, looking for evidence of her soldier brother who disappeared decades before during the Soviet invasion; David, an American, a former spy who has seen his ideals turned inside out during his twenty-five years in Afghanistan; Casa, a young Afghani whose hatred of the West plunges him into the depths of zealotry; and James, the Special Forces soldier in whom David sees a dangerous revival of the unquestioning notions of right and wrong that he himself once held.In mesmerizing prose, Nadeem Aslam reveals the complex ties—of love and desperation, pain and salvation, madness and clarity—that bind the characters. And through their stories he creates a timely and achingly intimate portrait of the “continuation of wars” that shapes our world. In its radiant language, its depth of feeling, and its unflinching drama, The Wasted Vigil is a luminous work of fiction.

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A Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Best Book of the YearGrowing up as brothers in a small town in Pakistan, Jeo and Mikal were inseparable; however as adults their paths have diverged sharply. Jeo is newly married and a dedicated medical student, while Mikal, in love with a woman he can’t have, has adopted the life of a vagabond. Nonetheless, when Jeo decides to slip across the border into Afghanistan to help civilians caught in the post-9/11 clash between American and Taliban forces, Mikal goes with him. But their good intentions cannot keep them out of harm’s way. A piercing portrayal of lives upended by war, The Blind Man’s Garden is an unflinching look at a world in which the line between enemy and ally is indistinct, and the desire to return home burns brightest of all.

Blind Man's Garden

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-11-01 Pages: 416 Language: English Publisher: Faber amp Love is not consolation. it is light From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers comes a searing. exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in. the months following 911 - a story of war. of one familys losses. and of the simplest. most enduring human impulses Jeo and Mikal. foster-brothers from a small Pakistani city. secretly enter Afghanistan:. not to fight with the Taliban. but . to help and care for wounded civilians But it soon becomes apparent that good intentions cant keep them out of harms way ... From the wilds of Afghanistan to the heart of the family left behind - their blind father haunted for years by the death of his wife. by the mistakes he may have made in the name of Islam and nationhood. Jeos steadfast wife and her superstitious mother - Aslams prose takes us on an...

The Blind Man's Garden

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The Golden Legend

Love is not consolation, it is light from the author of maps for lost lovers and the wasted vigil comes a novel set in the months after 9/11, when western armies invaded afghanistan a story of love, hope and grief, of uncorrupted faith and of what it means to be alive jeo and his foster-brother mikal leave their home in pakistan to help care for wounded afghans within hours of entering the wide-horizoned afghan landscape, mikal and jeo are separated and, emerging from the carnage, mikal begins his search for jeo but his deepest wish is to return home to the young woman he loves and who loves him, jeos wife the blind mans garden maps a place both phantasmally beautiful and chilling taking us on a journey from al qaedas hideouts in waziristan and american-built military prisons to a family left behind mikals and jeos blind, regretful father, jeos resolute wife and her superstitious mother it unflinchingly examines war and brotherhood, devastation, separation and remorse, while celebrating the redemptive power of nature, art and literature

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Maps for Lost Lovers

Maps for Lost Lovers

Season of the Rain Birds

The Wasted Vigil

The Wasted Vigil

Blind Man's Garden

The Blind Man's Garden

The Blind Man's Garden

The Golden Legend

The Blind Man's Garden