“From the book he carefully tears out several maps, and in this light Afghanistan’s mountains and hills and restlessly branching corridors of rock appear as though the pages are crumpled up, and there is a momentary wish in him to… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“Only twenty - nine years in the entire human history had been without warfare, and now here he was too, travelling between the episodes… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“If love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness, then he had loved Mikal since they were ten years old…… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble. — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“If love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness, then he had loved Mikal since they were both ten years… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“He knows that had he been a young man himself he would not have stopped at Peshawar: he doesn’t know how he would have… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“Basie would lie on the mattress and talk endlessly, sometimes drinking from a bottle of Murree’s whisky he’d bring with him, bought from one… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in the scent… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“The scent of the tree's flowers can stop conversation. Rohan knows no purer source of melancholy.” — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
