From the acclaimed author of Maps for Lost Lovers and The Blind Man`s Garden, a brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel set in contemporary Pakistan - about a community consumed by religious intolerance.
For weeks, someone has been broadcasting people`s secrets from the minarets of the city`s mosques, striking fear into the hearts of Christians and Muslims alike. Then when shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, and Nargis`s husband, Massud, a fellow architect, is caught in the crossfire, she is unable to confess to him her greatest secret before he dies. But as the anonymous broadcasts continue, is it merely a matter of time before her past is exposed?

The Golden Legend is a timely and luminous story of corruption, resilience and the hope that only love and the human spirit can offer.