The Golden Legend
Nadeem Aslam
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
<b>A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of <i>The Blind Man's Garden:</i> set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance</b> <br>When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud&#8212;a fellow architect&#8212;is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret to him. Now under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and, in a country where even the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. When the loudspeakers reveal a forbidden romance between a...</br>