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The Golden Legend

✍ Scribed by Aslam, Nadeem

Book ID
108876921
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
187 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

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 crossfire and dies before she can confess to him her greatest secret. 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 minarets of the city's mosques and, in a country where the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike.

Against this background of violence and fear, two outsiders - the Christian, Helen and the mysterious Imran from Kashmir - try to find an island of calm in which their love can nurture and grow.

In his characteristically luminous prose, Nadeem Aslam reflects Pakistan's past and present in a single mirror - a story of...

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