The acclaimed author of The Wasted Vigil now
gives us a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and
Afghanistan in the months following 9/11: a story of war, of one
family’s losses, and of the simplest, most enduring human impulses.
Jeo and Mikal are foster brothers from a small town in Pakistan. Though
they were inseparable as children, their adult lives have diverged: Jeo
is a dedicated medical student, married a year; Mikal has been a
vagabond since he was fifteen, in love with a woman he can’t have. But
when Jeo decides to sneak across the border into Afghanistan—not to
fight with the Taliban against the Americans, rather to help care for
wounded civilians—Mikal determines to go with him, to protect him.
Yet Jeo’s and Mikal’s good intentions cannot keep them out of harm’s
way. As the narrative takes us from the wilds of Afghanistan to the
heart of the family left behind—their blind father, haunted by the death
of his wife and by the mistakes he may have made in the name of Islam
and nationhood; Mikal’s beloved brother and sister-in-law; Jeo’s wife,
whose increasing resolve helps keep the household running, and her
superstitious mother—we see all of these lives upended by the turmoil of
war.
In language as lyrical as it is piercing, in scenes at once beautiful and harrowing, The Blind Man’s Garden
unflinchingly describes a crucially contemporary yet timeless world in
which the line between enemy and ally is indistinct, and where the
desire to return home burns brightest of all.
Book Attributes | |
Pages | 464 |
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- Category: English
- Pages: 464
- Stock: Sold Out
- Model: STP-2500
- Weight: 650.00g
- ISBN: 978-0-571-28794-9