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Category: Nadeem Aslam

Not even God can change the past.

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

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

God is just a name for our wonder.

The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.

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.

fiction, history, war

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.

fiction, history, war

But whatever any of them thought one thing was always certain: even though they suffered and had to struggle at times to bring meaning and even the most basic dignity into their existence and even though in their search for justice and truthfulness they were beaten down and met with disappointment again and again—their lives were not available for use as an illustration. Theirs were not stories that could be read as an affirmation of another system.

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

fiction, prose, war

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

afghanistan, history, war

Even the air of this country has a story to tell about warfare. It is possible here to lift a piece of bread from a plate and following it back to its origins, collect a dozen stories concerning war-how it affected the hand that pulled it out of the oven, the hand that kneaded the dough, how war impinged upon the field where wheat was grown.

afghanistan, war

Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.

interconnectedness, literature, symbolism