Nadeem Aslam’s second novel, Maps for Lost Lovers took him eleven years to write, and is the story of an immigrant community in England struggling in the aftermath of the dissappearance of two illicit lovers.
Amy Waldman’s debut novel The Submission rightfully earned its way onto numerous ‘books of the year’ lists at the end of 2011, and was shortlisted for The Guardian’s First Book Award. Waldman, also a succesful journalist, talks to TMO about the novel, 9/11 fiction, and the links between literature and journalism. Martin Amis noted, in his […]
Nadeem Aslam’s second novel, Maps for Lost Lovers took him eleven years to write, and is the story of an immigrant community in England struggling in the aftermath of the dissappearance of two illicit lovers.
Novelist and short-story writer Michel Faber, in his three monkeys interview, commented “I think it’s juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren’t real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.” This is […]
“If the general climate is bad, all will be affected by it. Men and women of letters are not expected to do more than they can, as they express this bad situation in their literary production. With respect to the question of the appeal of a particular work, the whole thing depends on whether the […]
The easy choice would be to jump right in and ask novelist Nadeem Aslam what his thoughts are on the recent bombings in London. After all, his critically acclaimed novel Maps for Lost Lovers was a lyrical examination of the very immigrant communities in the North of England from which the alleged bombers came. British […]