Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.

Nadeem Aslam

Stichwörter: marriage muslim-woman



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Her mind is a haunted house.

Nadeem Aslam


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Shamas stands in the open door and watches the earth, the magnet that it is, pulling snowflakes out of the sky towards itself.

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He would drift through the house in search of the coolest spot to read through the long summer afternoons that had a touch of eternity to them, altering the arrangement of his limbs as much for comfort as for the fear that his undisturbed shadow would leave a stain on the wall.

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A daughter, a wife, a grandson,' You could say this place took away all I had. I could easily appear to be one of those unfortunate white men you hear about, who thought too lovingly of the other races and civilization of the world, who left his own country in the West to set up a home among them in the East, and was ruined as a result, paying dearly for his foolish mistake. His life smashed to pieces by the barbarians surrounding him.

Nadeem Aslam

Stichwörter: history war fiction



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He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in the scent of the acacia blossom, making themselves visible only to the young in order to entrap them in otherworldly world.

Nadeem Aslam

Stichwörter: history war fiction



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Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

Nadeem Aslam

Stichwörter: war fiction prose



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On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step.

Nadeem Aslam

Stichwörter: history war afghanistan



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Only twenty - nine years in the entire human history had been without warfare, and now here he was too, travelling between the episodes of a rapacious civil war.

Nadeem Aslam

Stichwörter: war



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All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

Nadeem Aslam

Stichwörter: love romance



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