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The Golden Legend
by Nadeem Aslam, Faber and Faber, £16.99

"The kinship of humanity was what Christ bought into the world,” reflects the fictional Bishop Solomon, Pakistan’s only native-born prelate, in this fierce and provocative new novel. Nadeem Aslam’s previous four books have tried to articulate this formula, searching for the unlikely bonds that bring people together. But it is in The Golden Legend, a tale of Christian persecution in modern-day Pakistan, that he finds its ultimate realisation.

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