Nadeem Aslam
Autore di Mappe per amanti smarriti
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Fonte dell'immagine: Nadeem Aslam Photo: Jerry Bauer
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1966-07-11
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Pakistan (birth)
England
UK - Luogo di nascita
- Gujranwala, Pakistan
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK - Istruzione
- University of Manchester (no degree)
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Lannan Literary Fellowship (2005)
Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (2014)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 1,729
- Popolarità
- #14,867
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 67
- ISBN
- 105
- Lingue
- 10
- Preferito da
- 6
The book seems to be conceived in a tragic, romantic mode, but Aslam’s characters are the victims of this endemic violence at so many different levels and from so many different directions in the course of the book that it almost becomes farcical, which surely isn’t what he intended. There are also some odd bookbinding choices going on: a book damaged by a brutal intelligence officer in the course of the story is being lovingly repaired by stitching the torn pages together with gold thread, in a sort of literary kintsugi. I can see the point, aesthetically, but I’m not sure that it would work mechanically, and there are far better ways to repair paper…
In the end I liked the general approach of the book, with its Rushdie-like conceit of “beauty vs. violence,” but I felt that Aslam undermined his case by piling too much miscellaneous bad stuff onto too small a group of characters.… (altro)