-- This BorderKitchen has been cancelled --
Nadeem Aslam was born in Pakistan. He moved to England at the age of fourteen and lived in a community of Pakistani immigrants. His novel Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) is set partially in this community. A gripping novel which was nominated for the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award among others. Nadeem Aslam wrote another novel which was translated into Dutch: The Wasted Vigil (2008).
Aslam is coming to The Hague on the occasion of his new novel The Blind Man’s Garden. After the attacks on the Twin Towers the Pakistani foster brothers Jeo and Mikal decide to go to Afghanistan to take care of the wounded. After they have lost sight of each other, Mikal is forced to start a search for his brother, unaware of his death. The boys’ blind father and his daughter-in-law, Jeo’s wife, are the ones left behind hoping for news.
Nadeem Aslam will be interviewed by Christine Otten.
This BorderKitchen will take place in collaboration with publisher Atlas Contact. The Blind Man’s Garden has been translated into Dutch by Harm Damsma and Niek Miedema as De tuin van de blinde.
Date: Tuesday May 21st
Location: Weimarstraat 36, 2562 GZ The Hague
Start: 20.00 hours
Tickets are €5,00 and can be reserved by e-mailing info@borderkitchen.nl or calling 070-3462355
‘Nadeem Aslam is a genuinely exciting new voice, lively, confident, uninhibited and ambitious. This is one of the most impressive... novels of recent years' - Salman Rushdie
The press about Maps for Lost Lovers:
‘Haunting, vivid and tender’ – Alan Hollinghurst in The Guardian
‘Aslam is a rich and vividly metaphorical writer . . . This is an exquisitely sad novel, and it is worth the effort of letting its spell take you over.’ - Newsday