The golden legend
Aslam, Nadeem
The golden legend / Nadeem Aslam - First American edition. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2017 - 319 p. ; 25 cm
The story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance. When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud - a fellow architect - is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret to him. Now under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and, in a country where even the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. When the loudspeakers reveal a forbidden romance between a Muslim cleric's daughter and Nargis's Christian neighbor, Nargis finds herself trapped in the center of the chaos tearing their community apart.
English.
9780451493781
Culture conflict---Fiction
Interpersonal relations----Fiction
Muslim women----Fiction
Widows----Fiction
Pakistan---Social life and customs----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PR9540.9.A83 / G65 2017
FIC ASL
The golden legend / Nadeem Aslam - First American edition. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2017 - 319 p. ; 25 cm
The story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance. When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud - a fellow architect - is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret to him. Now under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and, in a country where even the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. When the loudspeakers reveal a forbidden romance between a Muslim cleric's daughter and Nargis's Christian neighbor, Nargis finds herself trapped in the center of the chaos tearing their community apart.
English.
9780451493781
Culture conflict---Fiction
Interpersonal relations----Fiction
Muslim women----Fiction
Widows----Fiction
Pakistan---Social life and customs----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PR9540.9.A83 / G65 2017
FIC ASL
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