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.
Book Detail
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Publication Date
- 10/01/2017
- Number of Pages
- 336
- Binding
- Hard Back
- ISBN
- 9780670089116
- Category
-
Fiction , Literature
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