“You must remember one thing, Mr. Nick,” Ghulam said. “Seeking redemption is a man’s biggest mistake. Man cannot redeem–only Allah. Your job is to change the path you are walking on. Not try to make up for all the bad things you have done. That will only lead back along the same path, so that the past will become destiny. What is written, Mr. Nick, can never be unwritten.”
I’m really enjoying Fidali’s Way by George Mastras. I keep forgetting the book is classified as fiction. It is altogether engrossing, and rings true from the accuracy of the setting to the philosophy it subtly espouses.
I haven’t read a book this good since I read A Thousand Splendid Suns. That part of the world fascinates me, and has since I was ten years old and wanted to be an archeologist over in those parts.
It is a particularly timely book given the current political situation in northern Pakistan.
Would it be a good book club read? It sounds fascinating.
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Absolutely, Margaret. I read the novel and am recommended it to my book club. It’d be a fantastic book club book!