To the Wedding

The centenary edition, with an introduction by Nadeem Aslam.

‘You have a voice that couldn’t lie. There are voices that can’t lie.’

A blind Greek pedlar listens as a mother and father, estranged for years, travel across Europe to their daughter’s wedding.

Ninon is marrying Gino in Italy. She is twenty-three years old and she is dying of AIDS. Fragments of conversations, songs and silence blen