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Mirza Waheed
ISBN: 9780141048581
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
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By the waters running through the valleys of Kashmir, teenage boys come to play cricket, talk about girls, and just be. But a few years later, when they are young men and violence grips the region, they are gone. Only the son of the local headman has stayed. He knows his friends have slipped over the border to Pakistan, and turned militant.
By the waters running through the valleys of Kashmir, teenage boys come to play cricket, talk about girls, and just be. But a few years later, when they are young men and violence grips the region, they are gone. Only the son of the local headman has stayed. He knows his friends have slipped over the border to Pakistan, and turned militant to bear arms against the Indian army. He would like to join them - but he cannot. Instead, put in an impossible position by an Indian army Captain, he must cross into the shadowland between the opposing sides, a ghost walking among the dead. His fate, like that of his lost brothers, unknown...
| ISBN | 0141048581 | | Pages | 320 | | ISBN13 | 9780141048581
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 222 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Publication date | 19 Jan 2012 | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | DEWEY | 823.92 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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With flashes of brilliance, tenderness and fury, The Collaborator does what fiction should. It makes you listen Arundhati Roy Devastating ... haunting ... gripping in its narrative drama Guardian Compelling ... An important and poetic testimony to an all-too-easily forgotten war Daily Mail Waheed builds an atmosphere of menace and despair ... his tale possesses a disturbing power that is both lingering and profound Independent on Sunday A powerful first novel -- Books Of The Year Financial Times A thrilling, powerful debut Sunday Times  Be the first to write a customer review
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