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The Geometry of God: A Novel

 
Uzma Aslam Khan (Author)
Synopsis The paleantologist Zahoor is trying to do his research while General Zia is launching a campaign to Islamise knowledge. Science is being rewritten and called Islamic Science. The teaching of evolution is banned. Nothing is natural or accidental; everything is â revealedâ and â ordained. On a fossil dig in the Salt Range of the Punjab, an area that once lay beneath the Tethys Sea, Zahoorâ;s granddaughter, Amal, finds proof of the dog-whaleâ;. No one knows it yet but she has found Pakicetus, the oldest known primitive whale. Back at home bad news awaits. Amalâ's baby sister Mehwish has become blind and Amal will have to stay home to raise her. Mehwishâ's world is both magical and terrifying. Through Amal she learns to read a seeing personâ's alphabet. She can also"seeâ' Amalâ's drawings of primitive whales. Her grandfather teaches her illegal English love poems.
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About the author

Uzma Aslam Khan

Uzma Aslam Khan grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. She is the author of The Story of Noble Rot published by Penguin Books India in 2001. Her new novel Trespassing will be published by Flamingo UK and Penguin Books India in June 2003. She has taught English language and literature in the US, Morocco and Pakistan. She currently works at an NGO in Lahore, where she lives with her husband.

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Bibliographic information

Title The Geometry of God: A Novel
Format Hardcover
Date published: 02.06.2007
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Rupa & Co.
Language: English
length 338p.