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Nadeem Aslam - The Blind Man's Garden
Released: 07/02/2013
Faber & Faber
The British Pakistani author's award-winning Map for Lost Lovers was a book of deft contrasts: the threat of Fundamentalist Islam against nature's prevailing beauty. This novel suggests some parallels: the garden is in Pakistan, the man is the haunted father of foster-brothers, Jeo and Mikal, who walk into conflict while trying to help wounded Afghans after 9/11...
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The Observer“There are awkward gaps and residues despite the author's great gifts...” The book has a plot that converges a number of times on the action-adventure thriller, though containing more pain than the genre allows. Unprotected by the gorgeousness of Aslam's language, the story is potentially novelettish or TV movie-like...
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80 %
The Telegraph“Some readers may flinch from the conjunctions of brutality and beauty.” A gripping work that goes to the heart of Muslim fanaticism and Pentagon intransigence alike. Aslam is a wonderful talent, and we are lucky to have him...
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100%
The Independent“Despite the ugliness of war, this book glows with a radiant beauty...”
Once or twice a year, a book stuns me. Nadeem Aslam's fourth novel, The Blind Man's Garden, has done just that. My expectations were high: Aslam has won a clutch of prizes. But the power of this extraordinary novel is still jarring...
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80 %
Guardian“A love story, but with the tumult of war in the foreground...” The Blind Man's Garden is an impressive accomplishment; a gripping and moving piece of storytelling that gets the calamitous first act in the "War on Terror" on to the page with grace, intelligence and rare authenticity...
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