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The blind man's garden, Nadeem Aslam

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The blind man's garden

Nadeem Aslam

From the author of "The Wasted Vigil" comes an exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 - a story of war, of one family's losses, and the simplest, most enduring human impulses. Jeo and Mikal, foster brothers from a small Pakistani town, secretly enter Afghanistan - not to fight with the Taliban against the Americans, but rather to help care for the wounded civilians. Their good intentions, though, cannot keep them out of harm's way. "The Blind Man's Garden" unflinchingly describes a topical yet timeless world, powerfully evoking a place where the line between enemy and friend is indistinct, and where the desire to return home burns brightest of all