The Golden Legend, Nadeem Aslam
The Golden Legend, Nadeem Aslam
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The Golden Legend
A Novel

Author: Nadeem Aslam

Narrator: Deepti Gupta

Unabridged: 11 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/18/2017

Synopsis

When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud—a fellow architect—is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret to him. Now under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and, in a country where even the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. When the loudspeakers reveal a forbidden romance between a Muslim cleric's daughter and Nargis's Christian neighbor, Nargis finds herself trapped in the center of the chaos tearing their community apart. In his characteristically luminous prose, Nadeem Aslam has given us a lionhearted novel that reflects Pakistan's past and present in a single mirror, a story of corruption, resilience, and the disguises that are sometimes necessary for survival—a revelatory portrait of the human spirit.

About Nadeem Aslam

Nadeem Aslam was born in Pakistan and now lives in England. He is the author of four previous novels. His work has been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, short-listed for the IMPAC prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and won the Kiriyama Prize, the Encore Award, the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dilushani on October 19, 2021

What a beautifully written book and yet at the same time, what a hard story to read. For me it felt personal, despite not being someone from that country, the brutality written in those pages, strongly reflect with the brutality that happens in mine. I could have easily swapped the Imran for a Hasha......more

Goodreads review by William on February 06, 2017

I discovered Nadeem Aslam many years ago. He is totally delightful as a writer. He never disappoints with his intelligent and thoughtful themes. His Map for Lost Lovers remains one of my favorite novels of this century. In The Golden Legend, he returns to his native contemporary Pakistan and writes......more

Goodreads review by Helin on March 29, 2021

Pakistanis elav arhitektidest abielupaar jääb ühel hommikul tulevahetuse alla ja mees saab surma. Kuna tulistajaks on ameeriklane, siis pööratakse lugu poliitiliseks ja Nargis peab avalikult ameeriklasele andeks andma. See aga ei meeldi moslemitele, nii et naine saab hoituse mitte andestada. Siis ag......more

Goodreads review by Eric on February 13, 2017

I’ve greatly admired Nadeem Aslam’s writing since I read his 2004 novel “Maps for Lost Lovers” which focused on an immigrant Pakistani community in the north of England. There is something so striking about his use of imagery which conveys the feelings of his characters and expresses the ideas which......more

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