Everyone in this book seemed to live a wasted vigil type of life.Thank God, I was not born in a country like this, I really feel sorry for all these people who have to face horrid choices constantly.The "religion" of Islam has destroyed the lives of so many people and I found it hard to understan...
Very dark and disturbing. Also hard to know what is fiction and what the author is taking from known historical fact. I assume that all the behind the scenes government strategy, terrible war amd terrorist tactics mentioned in the book are true and therefore this has been a most disturbing and d...
yes, yes. I am still pulverised by having read this - in a daze and think I need to read it again, more slowly, so the shock is less and the learning greater. There is a review on the back of the paperback that is spot - on "shows how fiction can be so much more than reportage". Oh Afghanistan...
Pakistan à la frontière de l'Afghanistan. l'après 11 septembre vu de l'autre coté. Pas seulement modérés et Djihadistes mais la description d'une société dans la tourmente ou l'Islam est omniprésent et est ce que chacun en fait. Déchainement de violence entrainant malgré eux les personnages. Chac...
This is the kind of book I really love as it brings the reader to a time and place you could never be and explores lives in a way that makes their choices real and understandable. The time is just after American troops enter Afghanistan, but our main characters are from Pakistan. It is an explora...
Maps for Lost Lovers is deeply sad tale of Pakistani immigrants in England. Of people who come from a culture with deep rooted beliefs that are diametrically opposite to what the west holds. Of immigrants coming to an alien land with hope, only to lose everything they ever held dear, including th...
It had been a while since I had read, “Season of the Rainbirds” by Nadeem Aslam and almost forgotten how much I loved it. I had just finished “The Blind Man’s Garden” and thought of going back to this one. To relive the reading experience and ironically enough I loved it more this time than I had...