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Nadeem Aslam

Born

Gujranwala, Pakistan

Genre

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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Average rating: 3.77 · 8,291 ratings · 1,241 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Maps for Lost Lovers 3.78 avg rating — 2,838 ratings — published 2004 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wasted Vigil 3.72 avg rating — 1,754 ratings — published 2008 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blind Man's Garden 3.76 avg rating — 1,653 ratings — published 2013 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Legend really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,233 ratings — published 2017 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Season of the Rainbirds 3.31 avg rating — 494 ratings — published 1993 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El jardín de un hombre ciego by Nadeem Aslam, Roberto Falcó Miramontes; (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta 112: Pakistan by John Freeman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Green Cardamom (Contributor), Declan Walsh (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To the Wedding by John Berger, Nadeem Aslam (Introduction) 3.97 avg rating — 2,337 ratings — published 1995 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Exiles by Qurratulain Hyder, Nadeem Aslam (Foreword by), Aamer Hussein (Foreword) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Nadeem Aslam

“Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.”
― Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil

tags: interconnectedness, literature, symbolism

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“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

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“On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step”
― Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil

tags: afghanistan, history, war

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