by Nadeem Aslam · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466318617
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«Mapas para amantes perdidos» is the contemporary fiction novel by Nadeem Aslam, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (544 pages, in Spanish).
The disappearance of Jugnu and Chanda, lovers who defied Islamic norms in a town in northern England, shakes the Pakistani community. The arrest of her brothers exposes tensions between tradition, religion and desire, in a story about love, freedom and the identity of an immigrant family.
The work, originally published as "Maps for Lost Lovers" (2004), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Kiriyama Prize and the RSL Encore Award. Translation by Cecilia Ceriani.
For fiction readers and book clubs interested in the Pakistani diaspora, cultural identity and the tension between tradition and freedom.
Nadeem Aslam FRSL is a 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 International Dublin Literary Award, among others. Colm Tóibín described him as "one of the most exciting and serious British novelists writing now".
