[Reader-list] Book Review: The Golden Legend is Scary and yet True

[Kabir Khan]

The Golden Legend is Scary and yet True
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Nadeem Aslam’s recently released ‘The Golden Legend’ is scary and yet true.
It is the story of our times. Killings on the name of religion, nation,
prophet and cows. They are all there in the novel. The landscape is oozing
and overflowing with blood. That doesn’t deter the lovers. They keep
loving. It is love and the memories of love which matter the most.

There is an elaborate description of violence. The reader is pushed to the
wall with many existential questions. Is there any value of human
existence? Are our destinies pre- determined by the geographies we are born
in. Are religious men cause of all violence? Or is there something more to
religion? Are those skull cap wearing Mullahs, with rosaries in their hands
and long white beards dictating bloodshed or are they marginal players,
victims of the circumstances, they have been pushed in?

There aren’t any clear answers, neither in the book, nor in life. There is
hope, as some of us are carrying those questions, and there are few, who
may have answers- “*How one person carried the answer through his life
until he met person who was carrying the question*.” Continued here...
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