Untitled Nadeem Aslam Novel

Examining contemporary Pakistan under an excoriating lens, it follows the overlapping lives of a group of characters in the neighbourhood of Badami Bagh, in the city of Zamana. The story centres around Nargis, the widow of the secular architect Massud. Under pressure from the powerful Pakistan milit [...]
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Examining contemporary Pakistan under an excoriating lens, it follows the overlapping lives of a group of characters in the neighbourhood of Badami Bagh, in the city of Zamana. The story centres around Nargis, the widow of the secular architect Massud. Under pressure from the powerful Pakistan military to pardon the American man who caused her husband's death, she is all the while being urged in secret by her local cleric to resist such a course of action. Her story is then seamlessly intertwined with that of her neighbours, Helen and Lily, another widow, Aysha, and her son, Billu, and the enigmatic Imran struggling with his own loss and grief. Set against a society in which privacy is hard to come by, the accusation of blasphemy a currency with which to barter, and perhaps love the only recourse, The Golden Legend is a masterly achievement.