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Sat 08 Aug 2008Anguish in Afghanistan
FICTION:WAR LEAVES DEADLY secrets and, in their wake, grieving survivors seeking answers. When Pakistan-born Nadeem Aslam published his first novel, Season of the Rainbirds, in 1993, there was no doubting the beauty of his formal, almost old-style prose, the artistry of his storytelling.
Almost a decade later, he came of age with Maps for Lost Lovers, a heroic book that confronted the horrors and complications of multi-racial Britain and the difficulties created by culture, tradition and the age-old cause of violence - religion. In it, two brothers murder their sister because she happens to fall in love with a man belonging to the - in their opinion - wrong faith.
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