About Nadeem Aslam: Nadeem Aslam is a prize-winning British Pakistani novelist.
Tell me,' the man leans forward ans says, 'have you heard of a lady called Madeleine? No? In 1996, this lady named Albright Madeleine, the US ambassador to the United Nations, was asked on television how she felt about the fact that five hundred thou...
The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy.
There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.
Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.
I don’t feel old. I just feel like someone young who has something wrong with him.
Not even God can change the past.
The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.
God is just a name for our wonder.
Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are foo...
The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.
Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.
He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in the scent of the acacia blossom, making themselves visible only to the young in order to entrap them in otherworldly world.
A daughter, a wife, a grandson,' You could say this place took away all I had. I could easily appear to be one of those unfortunate white men you hear about, who thought too lovingly of the other races and civilization of the world, who left his own ...
On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step
How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.
Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.
All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.
Even the air of this country has a story to tell about warfare. It is possible here to lift a piece of bread from a plate and following it back to its origins, collect a dozen stories concerning war-how it affected the hand that pulled it out of the ...
But whatever any of them thought one thing was always certain: even though they suffered and had to struggle at times to bring meaning and even the most basic dignity into their existence and even though in their search for justice and truthfulness t...
