INTERVIEW: Nadeem Aslam first manuscript to Andre Deutsch after discovering the publisher

<strong>Nadeem Aslam sent his first manuscript to Andre Deutsch after discovering the publisher’s address in a copy of A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul. He was called within a week. For the next 10 years, Aslam read everything from Nabokov, Conrad and Hardy to D.H. Lawrence, Joyce and Dickens. “That’s how I learnt English, looking at the sentences,” he says. His second novel, Maps for Lost Lovers, took 11 years because he was educating himself during that time. “I copied the

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