by Nadeem Aslam · tapa dura · ISBN 9789520109363
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«Sokean miehen puutarha» is the novel by Nadeem Aslam published by Like in hardcover (387 pages, in Finnish).
On the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, months after 9/11, Rohan, a devout old man, lives in the garden of a school occupied by Islamists. His son Jeo leaves as a volunteer doctor with his adoptive brother Mikal; Naheed, Jeo's wife, waits at home, and Mikal secretly loves her. Love, faith and violence cross paths in this story.
Work originally published in English as 'The Blind Man's Garden' (2013); Finnish translation by Kirsi Luoma. Nominated for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the DSC Prize in 2014.
For readers of contemporary and historical fiction interested in South Asia, fundamentalism and the moral dilemmas of war.
Nadeem Aslam FRSL is a British Pakistani novelist. His debut novel, Season of the Rainbirds, won the Betty Trask and the Author's Club First Novel Award. His critically acclaimed second novel Maps for Lost Lovers won Encore Award and Kiriyama Prize; it was shortlisted for International Dublin Literary Award, among others. Colm Tóibín described him as "one of the most exciting and serious British novelists writing now".
