Nadeem Aslam writes literary fiction about Pakistan, Afghanistan, migration, religious conflict and the private costs of political violence. Maps for Lost Lovers centres on a Pakistani community in England after a couple disappear in a suspected honour killing, using an extended family to examine secrecy, faith and exile. The Wasted Vigil brings together Afghan and foreign characters in a house near Jalalabad after decades of war, while The Blind Man's Garden follows two young Pakistani men drawn towards Afghanistan after 9/11. The Golden Legend returns to Pakistan through a widow and those around her as sectarian violence and surveillance close in. Aslam's prose is lyrical, dense and image-rich, but his novels remain grounded in family relationships and moral consequence. They fit South Asian literary fiction, migration fiction and war literature. Read more Less
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