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Maps for Lost Lovers

(2004)
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Awards
2006 Dublin Literary Award (nominee)
2005 Encore Award
2004 Booker Prize (longlist)

In an unnamed town in England, Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared - and Chanda's brothers have been arrested for their murder. What follows is an unravelling of all that is sacred to the family, as the pious Kaukab tries desperately to square the traditional justice of her culture with the more personal consequences of their murder. 'Maps for Lost Lovers' opens the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, community, nationality and religion and expresses their pain and desire in a language that is arrestingly poetic.


Genre: Literary Fiction

Praise for this book

"Thoughtful, revealing, lushly written and painful, this timely book deserves the widest audience." - David Mitchell


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