The blind man's garden - Nadeem Aslam

Love is not consolation, it is light.'

From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers comes a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and
Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 - a story of war, of one
family's losses, and of the simplest, most enduring human impulses.

Jeo
and Mikal, foster-brothers from a small Pakistani city, secretly enter
Afghanistan: not to fight with the Taliban, but to help and care for
wounded civilians. But it soon becomes apparent that good intentions
can't keep them out of harm's way...

From the wilds of
Afghanistan to the heart of the family left behind - their blind father
haunted for years by the death of his wife, by the mistakes he may have
made in the name of Islam and nationhood, Jeo's steadfast wife and her
superstitious mother - Aslam's prose takes us on an extraordinary
journey.