{"id":16562,"date":"2023-06-25T13:20:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T17:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=16562"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:56:40","slug":"jamaluddin-aram","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/jamaluddin-aram\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaluddin Aram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jamaluddin Aram is a documentary film maker, producer and writer from Kabul, Afghanistan. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English and history from Union College in Schenectady, New York and now lives in Toronto.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Simon & Schuster Canada, 2023.
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It is the early 1990s, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Russian occupation has ended, and civil war has broken out, but life roars on in full force in the working-class town of Wazirabad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A rash of burglaries has stolen people\u2019s sleep. Fifteen-year-old Aziz awakens from a dark dream that prompts him to plant shards of glass along the wall surrounding his house to protect his family against theft. Aziz\u2019s sister, Seema, decorates kites with her calligraphy and sells fresh scorpions to spare her mother from servicing the local soldiers. Along the main street, three militiamen wait for the fighting to resume, while the Baker, the Watchmaker, the Tailor, and the Vegetable Seller make their modest living and the Bonesetter reads poetry to his cat. And every day at noon, a flaming red rooster walks three blocks to visit his favourite hens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But tensions rise among the town\u2019s people. The burglaries have put everyone on edge. The militiamen are on the hunt for the thief who stole their dog\u2014and their ammunition. And a widow, who is the target of men\u2019s lust and women\u2019s scorn, soon finds herself on the periphery of a terrible violence. While the armed conflict rages on in the background, rumours swirl with a feverish frenzy, culminating in the collective chorus of the town\u2019s living, breathing dreams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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