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020 _z9780451493798 (ebook)
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100 1 _aAslam, Nadeem,
_eauthor.
_946073
245 1 4 _aThe golden legend /
_cNadeem Aslam.
250 _aFirst American edition.
260 _aLondon
_bFaber and faber
_c2017
300 _a319 p. ;
_c25 cm
520 _a"A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud--a fellow architect--is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret to him. Now under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and, in a country where even the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. When the loudspeakers reveal a forbidden romance between a Muslim cleric's daughter and Nargis's Christian neighbor, Nargis finds herself trapped in the center of the chaos tearing their community apart. In his characteristically luminous prose, Nadeem Aslam has given us a lionhearted novel that reflects Pakistan's past and present in a single mirror, a story of corruption, resilience, and the disguises that are sometimes necessary for survival--a revelatory portrait of the human spirit"--
650 0 _aCulture conflict
_zPakistan
_vFiction.
_946074
650 0 _aInterpersonal relations
_vFiction.
_946075
650 0 _aMuslim women
_vFiction.
_946076
650 0 _aWidows
_vFiction.
_937349
650 7 _aFICTION / Literary.
_2bisacsh
_946077
650 7 _aFICTION / Family Life.
_2bisacsh
_946078
650 7 _aFICTION / Cultural Heritage.
_2bisacsh
_946079
651 0 _aPakistan
_xSocial life and customs
_vFiction.
_946080
655 0 _aDomestic fiction.
_946081
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aAslam, Nadeem, author.
_tGolden legend
_bFirst edition.
_dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017
_z9780451493798
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