Background
Nadeem Aslam moved with his family to the United Kingdom aged 14 when his father, a Communist, fled President Zia"s regime.
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La desaparición de una joven pareja de enamorados perteneciente a la comunidad pakistaní de una ciudad del norte de Inglaterra se convierte en un auténtico drama social cuando los hermanos de ella son detenidos y acusados del asesinato de los novios. Una encrucijada de pasiones, culturas y religiones en una historia de amor por encima de las diferencias.
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Set in a nameless british town that its pakistani-born immigrants have renamed dasht-e-tanhaii, the desert of solitude, maps for lost lovers is an exploration of cultural tension and religious bigotry played out in the personal breakdown of a single family. As the book begins, jugnu and chanda, whose love is both passionate and illicit, have disappeared from their home. Rumours about their disappearance abound, but five months pass before anything certain is known. Finally, on a snow-covered january morning, chanda's brothers are arrested for the murder of their sister and jugnu. Maps for lost lovers traces the year following jugnu and chanda's disappearance. Seen principally through the eyes of jugnu's brother shamas, the cultured, poetic director of the local community relations council and commission for racial equality and his wife kaukab, mother of three increasingly estranged children and devout daughter of a muslim cleric, the event marks the beginning of the unravelling of all that is sacred to them. It fills shamas's own house and life with grief and, in exploring the lovers' disappearance and its aftermath, nadeem aslam discloses a legacy of miscomprehension and regret not only for shamas and kaukab but for their children and neighbours as well. An intimate portrait of a community searingly damaged by traditions, this is a densely imagined, beautiful and deeply troubling book written in heightened prose saturated with imagery. It casts a deep gaze on themes as timeless as love, nationalism and religion, while meditating on how these forces drive us apart.
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From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, Aslam’s exquisite first novel, the powerful story of a secluded Pakistani village after the murder of its corrupt and prominent judge. Judge Anwar’s murder sets the people of the village on edge. Their anxieties are compounded when a sack of letters, thought lost in a train crash nineteen years ago, suddenly reappears under mysterious circumstances. What secrets will these letters bring to light? Could the letters shed any light on Judge Anwar’s murder? As Aslam traces the murder investigation over the next eleven days, he explores the impact that these two events have on the town’s inhabitants—from Judge Anwar’s surviving family to the journalist reporting on the delivery of the mail packet. With masterful attention to detail and beautiful scenes that set the rhythms of daily life in Pakistan, Aslam creates a lush and timeless world—played out against an ominous backdrop of religious tensions, assassinations, changing regimes, and faraway civil wars.
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In The Wasted Vigil, Nadeem Aslam, the award-winning author of Maps for Lost Lovers, brilliantly knits together five seemingly unconnected lives to create a luminous story set in contemporary Afghanistan.There’s Marcus, an English expat who was married to an outspoken Afghani doctor; David, a former American spy; Lara, from St. Petersburg, looking for traces of her brother, a Russian soldier who disappeared years before; Casa, a young Afghani whose hatred of the Americans has plunged him into the blinding depths of zealotry; and James, an American Special Forces soldier. Aslamreveals the intertwining paths that these characters have traveled, constructing a timely and intimate portrait of the complex ties that bind us and the wars that continue to tear us apart.
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If Gabriel García Márquez had chosen to write about Pakistani immigrants in England, he might have produced a novel as beautiful and devastating as Maps for Lost Lovers. Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared. Like thousands of people all over Enland, they were lovers and living together out of wedlock. To Chanda’s family, however, the disgrace was unforgivable. Perhaps enough so as to warrant murder.As he explores the disappearance and its aftermath through the eyes of Jugnu’s worldly older brother, Shamas, and his devout wife, Kaukab, Nadeem Aslam creates a closely observed and affecting portrait of people whose traditions threaten to bury them alive. The result is a tour de force, intimate, affecting, tragic and suspenseful.
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Nadeem Aslam moved with his family to the United Kingdom aged 14 when his father, a Communist, fled President Zia"s regime.
He later studied biochemistry at the University of Manchester, but left in his third year to become a writer
The family settled in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. At 13, Aslam published his first short story in Urdu in a Pakistani newspaper. His next novel, 2004"s Maps for Lost Lovers, is set in the midst of an immigrant Pakistani community in an English town in the north.
Aslam"s third novel, The Wasted Vigil, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in September, 2008.
lieutenant is set in Afghanistan. He traveled to Afghanistan during the writing of the book
But had never visited the country before writing the first draft. On 11 February 2011, it was short-listed for the Warwick Prize for Writing Aslam"s fourth novel is.
lieutenant is set in Western Pakistan and Eastern Afghanistan and looks at the War on Terror through the eyes of local, Islamist characters.
lieutenant contains also a love story loosely based on the traditional Punjabi romance of Heer Ranjha. He has mentioned Vasko Popa, Ivan V. Lalić, Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska, Herman Melville, John Berger, VS Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, and Bruno Schulz. as the writers that he admires. His writings have been compared to those by Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Kiran Desai.
Aslam received an Encore in 2005.
He writes his drafts in longhand and prefers extreme isolation when working.
(Set in a nameless british town that its pakistani-born im...)
(La desaparición de una joven pareja de enamorados pertene...)
(From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers, which was long-l...)
(In The Wasted Vigil, Nadeem Aslam, the award-winning auth...)
(A sack of letters lost in a train crash nineteen years be...)
(If Gabriel García Márquez had chosen to write about Pakis...)