Nadeem Aslam
Author of Maps for Lost Lovers
About the Author
Image credit: Nadeem Aslam Photo: Jerry Bauer
Works by Nadeem Aslam
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1966-07-11
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Pakistan (birth)
England
UK - Birthplace
- Gujranwala, Pakistan
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK - Education
- University of Manchester (no degree)
- Occupations
- novelist
- Awards and honors
- Lannan Literary Fellowship (2005)
Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (2014)
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Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 5
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 1,718
- Popularity
- #14,952
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 66
- ISBNs
- 105
- Languages
- 10
- Favorited
- 6
- Touchstones
- 112
He seems to have made a career out of writing about dysfunctional Islam. Maps is about an immigrant Pakistani community in England; Vigil is about Islam in Afghanistan, and The Golden Legend is about terrorism, cruelty, corruption and sectarianism in Pakistan. There is also love across religious divides in Aslam's fictional city of Zamaran, but as the novel traces the ill-fortune of Nargis after her husband Massud is killed in a terrorist attack, it portrays a culture of inescapable violence and intimidation.
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