Days of darkness

By Marc McEvoy
Updated February 14 2013 - 4:08pm, first published February 2 2013 - 3:00am

NADEEM Aslam was shocked by what he saw in the mirror after he first simulated being blind. The British-Pakistani author had taped his eyes shut for a week to try to understand the experience of a key character in his latest novel, The Blind Man's Garden.

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