Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble. — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“You have spent your whole life believing such untrue things. Don't you know how alone you are, David? We are most alone… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains,… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“She thought of the boy thrown into the cauldron of war, the girl beset by various bigotries, her life in danger, and… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“The forgiveness of the weak is the air you strong ones breath, David. Didn't you know? You don't see it but you… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“As a child he used to wonder why Eve was taken from Adam’s rib. Now, at the other end of his life,… — 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
