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The blind man's garden / Nadeem Aslam.

By: Aslam, Nadeem [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Faber and Faber, c2013Description: 464 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780571287949 [paperback]Subject(s): Pakistanis -- Afghanistan -- Fiction | Pakistan -- Fiction | Afghanistan -- FictionDDC classification:

Contents:

Part one: Footnotes to defeat -- Part two: The blind man's garden -- Part three: Equal sons -- Part four: Isaiah.

Summary: Jeo and Mikal are foster-brothers in a small city in Pakistan. Jeo is a medical student who has been married for a year and Mikal is a drifter, in love with a woman he can't have. After 9/11, as the conflict intensifies in Afghanistan, Jeo decides to secretly enter the country to help care for the wounded, and Mikal goes with him. But can their good intentions keep them out of harm's way? Left behind is their family, and at its heart their blind father who is haunted by the death of his wife and the mistakes he has made in his life. The Blind Man's Garden is an evocative and powerful portrait of ordinary people torn apart by war.

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Item type	Current location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	College Library Fiction	F As51b 2013 (Browse shelf)	Available		3UCBL000027476

Part one: Footnotes to defeat -- Part two: The blind man's garden -- Part three: Equal sons -- Part four: Isaiah.

Jeo and Mikal are foster-brothers in a small city in Pakistan. Jeo is a medical student who has been married for a year and Mikal is a drifter, in love with a woman he can't have. After 9/11, as the conflict intensifies in Afghanistan, Jeo decides to secretly enter the country to help care for the wounded, and Mikal goes with him. But can their good intentions keep them out of harm's way?
Left behind is their family, and at its heart their blind father who is haunted by the death of his wife and the mistakes he has made in his life. The Blind Man's Garden is an evocative and powerful portrait of ordinary people torn apart by war.