Maps for Lost Lovers: A Novel - Brossura

Aslam, Nadeem

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1400076978 ISBN 13: 9781400076970

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006

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. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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“Impressive. . . . [Aslam’s] prose is stylistically dazzling. . . . His characters’ inner lives are explored in-depth, flaws and all. . . . A novel as affecting as it is provocative.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Extraordinary. . . . It deepens our knowledge of life. . . . 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.”—The New York Review of Books

“Artful . . . and heartbreaking. . . . [Aslam’s] prose is richly atmospheric, his tone engagingly introspective.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A writer’s tour de force. . . . Powerful.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“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 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

“[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 a previous award-winning novel, Season of the Rainbirds (1993). He was born in Pakistan and now lives in England.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1400076978
• ISBN 13: 9781400076970
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400