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Maps for Lost Lovers

Nadeem Aslam

Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

Rating: 3.78 | 2748 Users | 366 Reviews

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Original Title:	Maps for Lost Lovers
ISBN:	1400076978 (ISBN13: 9781400076970)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2004), Kiriyama Prize for Fiction (2005), RSL Encore Award (2005), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2006)

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If Gabriel García Márquez had chosen to write about Pakistani immigrants in England, he might have produced a novel as beautiful and devastating as Maps for Lost Lovers.

Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared. Like thousands of people all over England, they were lovers and living together out of wedlock. To Chanda’s family, however, the disgrace was unforgivable. Perhaps enough so as to warrant murder.As he explores the disappearance and its aftermath through the eyes of Jugnu’s worldly older brother, Shamas, and his devout wife, Kaukab, Nadeem Aslam creates a closely observed and affecting portrait of people whose traditions threaten to bury them alive. The result is a tour de force, intimate, affecting, tragic and suspenseful.

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Title	:	Maps for Lost Lovers
Author	:	Nadeem Aslam
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	May 9th 2006 by Vintage (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Pakistan. India. Contemporary. Novels. Literary Fiction

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Ratings: 3.78 From 2748 Users | 366 Reviews

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This is the kind of book that is best digested by biting off small bits and letting them melt in your mouth. The language is beautiful and the story is compelling. I would characterize it as something along the lines of Rohinton Mistry meets Zadie Smith meets Jane Austen. I can't wait to read more from this author.

Nadeem Aslam gets into the psyche of a Pakistani immigrant family living in London and graphically creates the conflicts and tensions of the members that arise when traditional Islam comes face to face with Western norms of modernity,. Jugnu and Chanda are lovers who have been missing and presumed to be murdered by Chanda's brothers as retribution for living in sin. Jugnu's brother Shamas is a liberal community leader married to Kaukub - a woman torn between the literal words of the Quran and

I've got to find some crappy books that I hated or even OK books that I struggled through. I'm giving everything five stars, but believe me, this beautiful and chilling book deserves it. I was listening to Hugh Hewitt interview Christopher Hitchens on the radio when he recommended this book in glowing terms. I went to Amazon and ordered.The novel takes place in the Midlands of England among the Pakistani community of a small city. the novel is told from the point of view of Shamas, a middle-aged

A difficult book. Simultaneously rather lovely and COMPLETELY MADDENING, and desperately in need of an editor - there are places where he repeats the same wildly flowery simile almost word for word within less than five pages, which would have been a mere single annoyance if not for the fact that this is hands down the most over-similed book I have ever read and most of them should have been pruned out ANYWAY. Characters can't walk down the street without three paragraphs of description about

"Is qadar pyaar se ay jaan-i jahaan rakkha haiDil ke rukhsaar pih is waqt teri yaad ne haath"A month after reading this book, I still can't forget it. I feel like the above lines from the poem "Dasht-e-tanhai" by Faiz Ahmed Faiz : "Your memories keep a comforting hand on the landscape of my heart."I can't forget Kaukab, everyone in south asia knows a Kaukab. I can see the arrogant, indolent but sensitive young boy Ujala come alive right before my eyes. I have known many Charags and Mah-jabeens

Pakistani writer, not Indian

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