Geometry of God by Khan, Uzma Aslam

Geometry of God

Amal: the practical sister who digs up the "diamond key" that unlocks the mystery of Pakicetus, a...
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Author: Uzma Aslam Khan
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Language: English
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Geometry of God by Khan, Uzma Aslam

Geometry of God

¥4,178

Geometry of God

¥4,178
Author: Uzma Aslam Khan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Amal: the practical sister who digs up the "diamond key" that unlocks the mystery of Pakicetus, a whale-dog creature who once swam the ancient seas that are now Pakistan. Mehwish: the blind younger sister, who moves with the sun and music inside her and thinks in "cup lits not fully legal." Zahoor: their heretical grandfather, a scientist who loves variation and "vim zee" and his two granddaughters most of all. Noman: the young man who steps into a lecture hall, decides "their triangle needs a fourth point," and changes all their lives. These are the four shifting chambers who make the heart of The Geometry of God, the new novel from lauded Pakistani writer Uzma Aslam Khan. Through these vivid, contradictory, and original characters, Khan celebrates the complexities of familial and erotic love, the tug of curiosity and duty, the intersections of faith and longing. Her exuberant language draws from Urdu and Punjabi and invents one of its own for Mehwish, whose fractured English divides and slows and reveals. The Geometry of God is a novel one can read greedily, following these characters as their lives unfold against the backdrop of General Zia's Pakistan, where religious fundamentalism gains ground and the mujaheddin is funded by gem sales and the Americans. Or one can savor, as the sisters show us: digging as Amal does toward the novel's deepest questions about love and knowledge and faith, moving as Mehwish does to the rhythms of an abundant and original language.

Author: Uzma Aslam Khan
Publisher: Clockroot Books
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781566567749


Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Bronze Medal Winner


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2009
Kirkus Best Books 12/15/2009 pg. 7
Publisher's Weekly Annex 10/26/2009

About the Author
Khan, Uzma Aslam: - Uzma Aslam Khan was born in Lahore and grew up in Karachi. She is the author of three novels, including Trespassing, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize. She teaches literature at Hampshire College.

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