{"title":"Nadeem Aslam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAslam was born in Pakistan in 1966 and moved to Britain at age 14. His family left Pakistan to escape President Zia's regime.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/44086.Maps_for_Lost_Lovers\" title=\"Maps for Lost Lovers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eMaps for Lost Lovers\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, winner of the Kuriyama Prize, took him more than a decade to complete. Aslam has stated that the first chapter alone took five years to complete, and that the following story in the book took seven months to complete before rejecting it. At the end, he kept only one sentence of the seventy pages written.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAslam's latest novel, The Wasted Vigil, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in September, 2008. It is set in Afghanistan. He traveled to Afghanistan during the writing of the book; but had never visited the country before writing the first draft. On 11th February 2011, it was short-listed for the Warwick Prize For Writing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis writings have been compared to those by Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Kiran Desai and received an Encore in 2005. He writes his drafts in longhand and prefers extreme isolation when working.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"season-of-the-rainbirds-nadeem-aslam","title":"Season of the Rainbirds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet during a monsoon season in the 1980s in a small town in Pakistan, Season of the Rainbirds is centred on the mysterious reappearance of a sack of letters lost in a train crash nineteen years previously. Could the letters have any bearing on Judge Anwar’s murder? The letters and the judge’s death trigger a series of tragic events and as the murder investigation progresses, dark tales of passion and betrayal unfold and long-buried secrets come to light.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe narrative segues between several characters—the judge’s family, a cleric troubled by local inhabitants’ lapses, a Muslim deputy commissioner defiantly involved with a Christian woman, a feudal landlord and a crusading journalist reporting on the delivery of the mail packet—and comes to a head when the journalist disappears and the country lurches between fear and uncertainty following an assassination attempt on the president.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the most exquisite fictional debuts, Season of the Rainbirds is a compelling portrayal of a society in strife, of a timeless world where daily rituals are played out against an ominous landscape of oppression, decadence, bigotry and power.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Beavers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43404705759255,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/8407\/4775\/files\/SeasonoftheRainbirds_NadeemAslam.jpg?v=1758607132"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/8407\/4775\/collections\/Nadeem_Aslam.jpg?v=1758607028","url":"https:\/\/bookbeavers.com\/collections\/nadeem-aslam.oembed","provider":"Book Beavers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}