Maps For Lost Lovers

WINNER OF THE KIRIYAMA PRIZE • If Gabriel García Márquez had chosen to write about Pakistani immigrants in England he might have produced a novel as beautiful and devastating as Maps for Lost Lovers.. Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared. Like thousands of people all over England they were lovers and living together out of wedlock. To Chanda’s family however the disgrace was unforgivable. Perhaps enough so as to warrant murder. As he explores the disappearance and its aftermath through the eyes of Jugnu’s worldly older brother Shamas and his devout wife Kaukab Nadeem Aslam creates a closely observed and affecting portrait of people whose traditions threaten to bury them alive. The result is a tour de force intimate affecting tragic and suspenseful..