Maps for Lost Lovers

图书信息

作者：Nadeem Aslam 　著

ISBN：9780571221806

出版时间：2004-01-01

分类：图书>英文原版书>小说 Fiction

开本：16开

纸张：胶版纸

包装：精装

商品详情

【目录】

WINTER

The Night of the Great Peacock Moths

A Breakfast of Butterfly Eggs

In Darkness

Women with Tails

The Most Famous Tamarind Tree in the Indian Subcontinent

SPRING

The Madonnas

Like Being Born

The Many Colours of Milk

Hiraman the Rose-ringed Parakeet

The Oldest Acquaintanceship in the World

The Dance of the Wounded

SUMMER

The Sunbird and the Vine

Cinnabar

At Scandal Point

Leopold Bloom and the Koh-i-Noor

You'll Forget Love, Like Other Disasters

AUTUMN

Iris's Wings

Dard di Raunaq

A Thousand Broken Mirrors

How Many Hands Do I Need to Declare My Love to You

A Leaf from the Book of Fates

Ghosts

The First Lovers on the Moon

【内容简介】

In this poignant, lushly written novel, Aslam (Season of the

Rainbirds) explores the interwoven lives of Pakistani immigrants in

an English town they have rechristened Dasht-e-Tanhaii, "the

Wilderness of Solitude" or "the Desert of Loneliness." The

disappearance of Jugnu and Chanda, lovers who broke Islamic law to

live in sin, throws the small community into upheaval. The police

arrest Chanda's brothers, whom they believe murdered the couple to

avenge their family's shame. Meanwhile, Jugnu's brother, Shamas,

contemplates the loss, occasionally clashing with his wife, Kaukab,

a devout Muslim who overtly disapproved of the relationship. Aslam

depicts an insular ex-pat Pakistani community fighting to preserve

its cultural heritage and losing the battle to its Western-born

children—often quite violently. At the heart of the turmoil is

sexual freedom, and Aslam illustrates the many ways women's lives

are restricted and romantic love is denied in the name of religion.

At times, Aslam's critique grows didactic, as when he saddles his

characters with long stretches of wooden, philosophical dialogue.

But in Kaukab, the lonely, sympathetic believer who inadvertently

alienated her own children, Aslam personifies the conflicts of

acculturation, crafting a truthful story that resists easy

conclusions. (May 8)

Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier

Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate

Hardcover edition.