Author Nadeem Aslam releases his new book, "The Blind Man's Garden" and talks to Reuters how the Pakistan - Afghanistan War has made him one of the more celebrated authors of South Asia.

Author Nadeem Aslam was born in Pakistan and raised in Britain. With his new book, "The Blind Man's Garden," just being released, Aslam reveals that he draws inspiration for the book from the life he lived in the war zone of Pakistan and Afghanistan. After the September 2001 attack on America, Aslam returned home and describes the terror he saw in people's faces that remained ignorant to the "forces behind the turmoil."

Aslam reveals that all authors writing a book during September 2001 must have suffered doubts about whatever they were currently writing as what really mattered was happening for real at that moment. However, for him, that was not the case as Aslam says the things he saw on TV that day was already in his life and written on the first page of his novel.

"Novels that come out of a land that's in turmoil, where the various hierarchies are quite rigid, and people are struggling within that system, are just more interesting. Britain has Mr Cameron's financial crisis, but it really isn't Afghanistan. In my writing, that background of explosions and turmoil is lowered, and we are left with human figures whose hearts are in conflict. These happen to be the times, the background," says Aslam.

Aslam humorously compares himself to machines that have labels that read "Made in China. Assembled in Germany." The author says he was made in the east and assembled in the west. He reveals that while many of his firsts that took place during his childhood happened in the east, many of his "important firsts" took place in the U.K.  Aslam says his audiences are neither Pakistanis nor Brits. They are his characters.