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Author James Lasdun writing in The Guardian said "By any measure The Blind Man's Garden is an impressive accomplishment." [ 9 ] Professor Randy Boyagoda also praised the book in The Wall Street Journal , "For all the grinding misery that Mr. Aslam reveals in this devastated, and devastating, world, his most admirable characters retain their humanity enough to hope, just a little, for something ...
- Nadeem Aslam
- 2013
The Blind Man's Garden begins in the garden of sixty-year-old Rohan, who is slowly going blind. Aslam describes the many flowering plants and trees growing in the garden and the different birds ...
The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam is a powerful novel that delves into the lives of two brothers who find themselves caught up in the aftermath of 9/11. It is a story of love, loss, and the search for redemption in a war-torn world.
In both cases, that reputation looks certain to be boosted by The Blind Man's Garden." - Daily Mail (UK) "By any measure The Blind Man's Garden is an impressive accomplishment; a gripping and moving piece of storytelling that gets the calamitous first act in the "War on Terror" on to the page with grace, intelligence and rare authenticity ...
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Apr 16, 2013 · The Blind Man’s Garden is published by Faber, £18.99 . Nadeem Aslam was born in 1966 in Gujranwala, Pakistan. At the age of fourteen he moved with his parents to Huddersfield, Yorkshire and attended the University of Manchester to study Biochemistry. In his third year, he dropped out of University and pursued writing.
In the early pages of the book, a man asks whether he can set snares for birds in the trees of the blind man’s garden, ‘just enough to hold a wing or neck in delicate, harmless captivity ...
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Apr 30, 2013 · nadeem aslam is a treasure to the world and everyone should read him. his writing is simply fantastic -- i think i liked the writing in The Wasted Vigil better, but probably one would like best the one one reads first. the writing's fullness and ornatedness -- the riches of adjectives, similes, metaphors, imagery, and occasionally magic -- has reminded better readers than i of urdu and of the ...
