Six titles have made the shortlist of the fourth DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2014. (November 20, 2013) It is the first year that Indian publishers have dominated the prize, with four of the six titles published by the publishing giant Penguin Random House. The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is for US …
The Blind Man’s Garden by Nadeem Aslam
by Shamika Shabnam “Every twelve-year-old boy pressed into battle by them, every ten-year-old girl forcibly married to mullah eight times her age, every man lashed, every woman beaten, every limb broken.” The Blind Man’s Garden is a heart-rending novel, unveiling the perilous conditions of post 9/11 Afghanistan. Jeo and Mikal, two friends …