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Maps for Lost Lovers
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781400076970
ISBN: 1400076978
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: May 09, 2006
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: May 09, 2006
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
If Gabriel García Márquez had chosen to write about Pakistani immigrants in England, he might have produced a novel as beautiful and devastating as Maps for Lost Lovers. Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared. Like thousands of people all over Enland, they were lovers and living together out of wedlock. To Chanda’s family, however, the disgrace was unforgivable. Perhaps enough so as to warrant murder.As he explores the disappearance and its aftermath through the eyes of Jugnu’s worldly older brother, Shamas, and his devout wife, Kaukab, Nadeem Aslam creates a closely observed and affecting portrait of people whose traditions threaten to bury them alive. The result is a tour de force, intimate, affecting, tragic and suspenseful.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Can't see the forest for the trees
I thought Maps for Lost Lovers was beautifully written and gave a glimpse into a community I knew very little about. I don't quite understand some of the other reviewer's belief that Maps was a piece of anti-Islamic propaganda or trying to perpetuate negative stereotypes. I am neither Muslim nor Pakistani but if anything the work facilitated a greater appreciation of the Pakistani community and Islam. I am a minority and the fact is stereotypes do exist. Some arise from factual representations in ... Read More
Rating: - UNBELIEVABLY FABULOUSLY BEAUTIFUL BOOK
Can't say much more than that. The writing is gorgeous beyond anything I have read in a long long time. The story is enlightening amd helps me to better understand the ideas of the Islamic terrorists and extremists. It doesn't really matter the country or culture or religion- it happens in countries all over the world - when religious ideas become so all encompassing, rigid and the only way to look at the world. The cruelty to women is mind bending in its totality. It sounds like I am describing ... Read More
Rating: - This is a masterpiece of imagery and emotion!
I have never read a more exquisitely written and detailed novel in my life and am reluctant to finish it! It is a story that can be read over and over and I know that I will because THIS is top-notch writing! Though the descriptions CAN be lengthy, they don't interrupt the flow of the story but rather add to them because you are being painted a picture and can take a second to imagine and have your senses thrilled. It's quite erotic!
I'm not going into the details of the story because that's ... Read More
Rating:  - Such beautiful writing...such little beauty to the story
There is no question that Aslam is a talented writer; "She goes to the window to look at the falling snow, the mirrors (on her traditional dress) on her [...] reflecting the snowflakes as though they are little windows and it is snowing inside her body."
At times however, the book is overwritten.
I was initially engrossed with the various subplots presented in the book but (without providing a spoiler here), the story concludes with little or no liberation to the reader, from the ... Read More
Rating:  - Too many issues
The story tells us the conflicts of an immigrant family. The older generation sticking to its own beliefs. The British born egneration eperiments on the parents ideals and eventually failure leads them to be too Western, in fact misfit on both sides.
The book does target Islam & Pakistan. But instead of being offended the Muslims ahould check the many ill-practises which are shielded by Islam falsesly. Such as the removal of djinns by a cleric so brutally that it killed the victim. Honour killings ... Read More
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