At first glance, “Maps for Lost Lovers,” the second novel by the Pakistani - born writer Nadeem Aslam, appears to be a familiar story of exile, cultural identity and assimilation. In recent years, ...

I originally approached Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil with trepidation. Having spent most of the last year in Afghanistan, I was reluctant to read a book about others’ adventures there. I’m pleased ...

Nadeem Aslam’s passionate condemnation of Islamic extremism in The Golden Legend ought to answer the question of where are the Muslim critics of fundamentalism. In four earlier novels, Aslam (who is ...

The ravaged nation of Afghanistan in the wake of Sept. 11 is the scene of Pakistani-born British writer Nadeem Aslam's searing, multifaceted novel. You might think that there is a particular specter ...

In his new novel, "The Blind Man's Garden," Aslam again returns to those countries in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, to portray the terror that gripped a region that was blind to the forces ...

I just finished watching the perfect movie. Only it wasn’t a movie; it was a book. When you love a work of literature, you may abhor the thought of an adaptation. But Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend ...

Two families are at the centre of the story, a middle-class Pakistani architect couple, Massud and Nargis, and their poor Christian neighbours, Lily (a man), Grace and their daughter Helen. Nargis was ...

Ever since its independence in 1947, Pakistan has been struggling to forge an Islamic identity. But this struggle has taken a massive toll on the country's religious minorities, which have declined ...

The Golden Legend. By Nadeem Aslam. Knopf; 319 pages; $27.95. Faber & Faber; £16.99. THERE are two versions of how Pakistan got its name, both true. The original is the more prosaic. Choudhary Rahmat ...