Maps for Lost Lovers
by Nadeem Aslam

Faber & Faber, UK
ISBN: 0571221807
Alfred A. Knopf, USA
ISBN: 1400042429

A Pakistani born writer now living in London delivers his critically acclaimed second-novel. The book, eleven-years in the making, presents both an exquisitely drawn portrait of an immigrant family in England and a compelling story centered on the murder of two lovers.

Nadeem Aslam

Nadeem had his first short story published in Urdu in a Pakistani newspaper when he was only 13. His debut novel, Seasons of the Rainbirds (1993), set in rural Pakistan, won the Betty Trask and the Author’s Club Best First Novel awards, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel award.

Nadeem Aslam was born in Gujranwala in Pakistan. He came to Britain at the age of 14 when his father, a Communist, fled President Zia’s regime and settled the family in Huddersfield. He now lives in north London.

Source: www.salaam.co.uk