Maps For Lost Lovers - Rilegato

Aslam, Nadeem

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ISBN 10: 1400042429 ISBN 13: 9781400042425

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2005

Riassunto

The disappearance of unmarried lovers Jugnu and Chanda turns tragic when Chanda's brothers are arrested for their murders and the families struggle to reconcile their Islamic faith with their lives in England, the murders, and the crime's devastating impact on the rest of their families, in the lyrical story of a Pakistani family in England. By the author of Season of the Rainbirds. 25,000 first printing.

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“Extraordinary . . . Aslam has created a novel which–grave yet exultant, brutal but compassionate–achieves its complex humanity, and its final affirmations of love and beauty, through a real reckoning with despair and heartbreak.”–Pankaj Mishra, New York Review of Books

“Aslam is a rich and vividly metaphorical writer . . . This is an exquisitely sad novel, and it is worth the effort of letting its spell take you over.”–Newsday

“Poetic, sensuous, precisely descriptive and lavishly allusive prose . . . Maps for Lost Lovers not only an important and memorable achievement, but a book that is deeply satisfying to read.”–The Washington Times

“Aslam manages an impressive feat: His prose is stylistically dazzling, full of poetic, richly descriptive and tender passages . . . His characters’ inner lives are explored in-depth, flaws and all . . . A novel as affecting as it is provocative.”–Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Aslam reveals–artfully and heartbreakingly–a psychology at war with itself . . . His prose is richly atmospheric, his tone engagingly introspective.”–Akash Kapur, The New York Times Book Review

“A writer’s tour de force . . . teeming with poetical descriptions and lapidary prose. [And] unlike so many literary novelists working today, Aslam actually has a story to tell, a powerful one.”–San Francisco Chronicle

“[An] exquisitely crafted, lushly written novel . . . Aslam combines sensual prose with a compelling storyline.”–Booklist

“Poignant, lushly written . . . a truthful story that resists easy conclusions.”–Publishers Weekly

“[A] painstakingly crafted exploration of cultural conflict . . . exquisite.”–Kirkus

L'autore

Nadeem Aslam is the author of the award-winning novel Season of the Rainbirds. Born in Pakistan, he now lives in London.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1400042429
• ISBN 13: 9781400042425
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 379