Nadeem Aslam, The Golden Legend

Madeline Clements (University of Teesside)

Ed. by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent Scholar - Asia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.2: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Sarker Hasan Al Zayed (Independent University Bangladesh), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2017

Places

Pakistan (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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The Golden Legend, published by Faber in 2017, is the fifth novel by the acclaimed British Pakistani writer Nadeem Aslam. In the UK, Aslam is perhaps best known for his second work of fiction, Maps for Lost Lovers (2004), which tells the controversial tale of a so-called honour crime which takes place in an unnamed English town within a close-knit migrant British Asian community. His two subsequent novels, The Wasted Vigil (2008) and The Blind Man’s Garden (2013), offer similarly poetic, polyphonic portraits of Central and South Asian Muslim co-inhabitants on a grander scale, portraying the devastating impact of late twentieth and early twenty-first century geopolitical events – the Soviet-Afghan War, the rise of the Taliban, and the launch, post-9/11, of the American-led War on…

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Citation: Clements, Madeline. "The Golden Legend". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 February 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39435, accessed 09 December 2023.]

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