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DESCRIPTION:Uzma Aslam Khan  makes a rare, San Francisco Bay Area  appearance. She will 
 discuss her recent novel The Geometry of God. Khan also has an article in 
 the upcoming issue of  Granta Magazine issue devoted toPakistan, and will 
 be appearing to talk about this at LitQuake while she is in the 
 area.\n\nAbout the Geometry of God:\n\nAmal: the practical sister who digs 
 up the “diamond key” that unlocks the mystery of Pakicetus, a whale-dog 
 creature who once swam the ancient seas that are now Pakistan.\nMehwish: 
 the blind younger sister, who moves with the sun and music inside her and 
 thinks in “cup lits not fully legal.”\nZahoor: their heretical 
 grandfather, a scientist who loves variation and “vim zee” and his two 
 granddaughters most of all.\nNoman: the young man who steps into a lecture 
 hall, decides “their triangle needs a fourth point,” and changes all 
 their lives.\n\nThese are the four shifting chambers who make the heart of 
 The Geometry of God, the new novel from lauded Pakistani writer Uzma Aslam 
 Khan. Through these vivid, contradictory, and original characters, Khan 
 celebrates the complexities of familial and erotic love, the tug of 
 curiosity and duty, the intersections of faith and longing. Her exuberant 
 language draws from Urdu and Punjabi and invents one of its own for 
 Mehwish, whose fractured English divides and slows and reveals.\n\nThe 
 Geometry of God is a novel one can read greedily, following these 
 characters as their lives unfold against the backdrop of General 
 Zia’sPakistan, where religious fundamentalism gains ground and the 
 mujaheddin is funded by gem sales and the Americans. Or one can savor, as 
 the sisters show us: digging as Amal does toward the novel’s deepest 
 questions about love and knowledge and faith, moving as Mehwish does to the 
 rhythms of an abundant and original language.\n 
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SUMMARY:Join Revolution Books presents Uzma Aslam Khan, author of "The Geometry of God"
LOCATION:Revolution Books\n2425 Channing Way(in the Sather Gate Parking Mall off of  
 Telegraph Avenue).Wheelchair accessible,donations accepted.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/18/18659189.php
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