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Nadeem Aslam Biography

Nadeem Aslam FRSL(born 11 July 1966 in Gujranwala, Pakistan) is a prize-winning British Pakistani novelist. His debut novel, Season of the Rainbirds, won the Betty Trask and the Author's Club First Novel Award. His critically acclaimed second novel Maps for Lost Lovers won Encore Award and Kiriyama Prize; it was shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, among others. Colm Toibin described him as "one of the most exciting and serious British novelists writing now'.

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There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.

Life, Oldest, Say, This Life, Want, World

History is the third parent.

History, Parent, Thirds

The neighbourhood is a place of. . . intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.

Cutting, Emotional, Names, People, Together

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

Guilty, Innocent, Nation, People

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

Bullet, Bullets, Gun, Important, Left

Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.

Fiercest, Grief, Hold, Mountain, Rage, World

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

Faithful, Nothing, Prayer, Sight

This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.

Among, Enough, Entire, Heart, World

Her mind is a haunted house.

Haunted, Haunted Houses, House, Mind

Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can't.

Handle, Material, Materials, Paper, World

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

Artist, Distance, Human, Know, Light, Task

Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.

Glimpse, Loneliness, Love, Result, Results

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

Dying, Journey, Step, Steps, Towards

To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.

Certain, Sky, Streets, Unchanged

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

Bravery, Citizens, Nation, People, Produces