Nadeem Aslam

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born

Gujranwala, Pakistan

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male

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Literature & Fiction

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Vasko Popa, Ivan V. Lalic, Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska, Herman ...more

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Aslam was born in Pakistan in 1966 and moved to Britain at age 14. His family left Pakistan to escape President Zia's regime.

His novel Maps for Lost Lovers, winner of the Kuriyama Prize, took him more than a decade to complete. Aslam has stated that the first chapter alone took five years to complete, and that the following story in the book took seven months to complete before rejecting it. At the end, he kept only one sentence of the seventy pages written. Aslam's latest novel, The Wasted Vigil, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in September, 2008. It is set in Afghanistan. He traveled to Afghanistan during the writing of the book; but had never visited the country before writing the first draft. On 11th February 2011, it was short-listed...more

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Books by Nadeem Aslam

Average rating: 3.71 · 1,250 ratings · 290 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Maps for Lost Lovers 3.72 avg rating — 670 ratings — published 2004 — 21 editions	My rating:
	The Wasted Vigil 3.77 avg rating — 509 ratings — published 2008 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Season of the Rainbirds 3.21 avg rating — 72 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Exiles by Qurrat-ul-ain Haider, Nadeem Aslam (Foreword by), Qurratulain Hyder 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:

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Quotes by Nadeem Aslam

“Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.”
― Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers

tags: marriage , muslim-woman

9 people liked it

“All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.”
― Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil

tags: love , romance

8 people liked it

“Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.”
― Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers

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