Maps for Lost Lovers - formato ePub

El jardín de un hombre ciego narra los problemas provocados por el choque de culturas en el ámbito familiar con el terrorismo como telón de fondo. La historia se desarrolla a lo largo de un mes clave...

Dans une ville anonyme du nord de l'Angleterre, Chanda et son amant, l'entomologiste Jugnu, ont disparu. De méchantes rumeurs agitent la communauté pakistanaise en butte à un enseignement de l'islam perverti,...

Aux abords de la ville de Zamana, lorsqu'une fusillade éclate entre des tueurs pakistanais et un espion américain, la vie de Nargis bascule. Pris dans les tirs croisés, Massud, son mari, architecte comme...

Afghanistan, 2005, à l'ombre des monts de Tora Bora. Dans une maison aux murs ornés de fresques, aux plafonds recouverts de livres cloués, avec sa fabrique où l'on distillait autrefois des parfums, le...

Dans les mois qui suivent les attentats du 11 Septembre, deux jeunes gens, Jeo et son frère adoptif Mikal, l'un étudiant en médecine, l'autre rompu au maniement des armes, quittent leur bourgade du Nord...

Une bourgade anonyme du Pakistan, à l'ombre de deux mosquées concurrentes, est secouée par deux événements simultanés : le meurtre du puissant juge Anwar, et la réapparition mystérieuse d'un sac postal...

'This land and its killing epochs.'Nadeem Aslam's dazzling new novel takes place in modern-day Afghanistan. A Russian woman named Lara arrives at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower...

Love is not consolation, it is light.' From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers comes a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 - a story of war,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018 When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud - a fellow architect - is caught in the crossfire...

The highly acclaimed and Betty Trask Award winning debut from the author of Maps for Lost LoversA sack of letters lost in a train crash nineteen years previously has mysteriously reappeared, and the inhabitants...

In an unnamed town Jugnu and his lover Chanda have disappeared. Rumours abound in the close-knit Pakistani community, and then on a snow-covered January morning Chanda's brothers are arrested for murder....

Il libro dell’acqua e di altri specchi si apre in una città fittizia chiamata Zamana, in Pakistan. Nargis e Massud sono una coppia di architetti, uniti da un’affinità elettiva con cui hanno sapientemente...

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From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid in a complicated FBI case—and he’s about to come face-to-face with his nemesis, the girl...

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In this "rare feast" of a novel, a young Indian American book editor inherits her estranged family’s ancestral home–and their long-buried secrets (Rachel Lyon, author of Self-Portrait With Boy). It is...

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