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Nov 02, 2016uncommonreader rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A first book, published in 1993, by someone I have come to regard as a great writer. The story is set in a village in Pakistan in the late 1970s/early 1980s during the dictatorship of General Zia. The story is told through various characters. Aslam's later themes - the tension with fundamentalism, corruption - are already developed in this novel.