A review by binstonbirchill
The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam

4.0

Set in Pakistan not long after 9/11, The Blind Man’s Garden tells the story of a family and a region overtaken by events in Afghanistan. Aslam shows us a wide range of emotion concerning Islam, the west, Americans, tradition, and love. The interrelationship between war and society that is portrayed is filled with complexity and nuance. Lives are uprooted and destroyed but through all of the bleak times there remains people being good to each other. The content of the book is complicated but remains very approachable to the reader.