GOLDEN LEGEND

A powerful and poetic piece of literary fiction published by Faber & Faber. Modern Pakistan is revealed with all its dangerous contradictions and feet in the past with religious fanaticism, indiscriminate violence and a retrograde understanding of the world, widespread corruption and the devaluation of human life and the novel is filled with characters whose thoughts, dreams and aspirations shape their destinies or narrow their choices. For weeks, someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minarets of the city's mosques, striking fear into the hearts of Christians and Muslims alike. Then when shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road and Nargis's husband Massud, a fellow architect, is caught in the crossfire, she is unable to confess to him her greatest secret before he dies. But as the anonymous broadcasts continue, is it merely a matter of time before her past is exposed? A story of corruption, resilience and hope. 364pp, paperback.