The Golden Legend: A novel (Vintage International)

When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road in the fictional Pakistani city of Zamara, NargisÆs life begins to crumble around her. Soon her husbandùand fellow architectùis dead and, under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, she fears that a long-hidden truth about her past will be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting peopleÆs secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and, in a country where even the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. A revelatory portrait of the human spirit, in The Golden Legend, Nadeem Aslam gives us a novel of PakistanÆs past and presentùa story of corruption and resilience, of love and terror, and of the disguises that are sometimes necessary for survival.

• | Author: Nadeem Aslam
• | Publisher: Vintage
• | Publication Date: Apr 24, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1101973382
• | ISBN-13: 9781101973387