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Four teenagers disappear from their calm lives of playing cricket and singing Bollywood songs by the riverside and find themselves on the opposite side of the border, in Pakistan. There, they become a part of the movement against the Indian army, disillusioned with the Indian Army s attempts to secure peace. The harsh reality of war and the toll it takes on the people drive them to join the separatist movement, to find a better peace for the valley. Truly evocative and artistic in its ability to stir readers emotions, this is a coming-of-age story rooted in the stark insensitivity of humanity s desire for war and conflict.
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Mirza Waheed is an Indian writer who was born and raised in Kashmir. This is his first novel, and it was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book award and the Shakti Bhatt Prize. It was also longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was named the Book of the Year by The Telegraph, the New Statesman, the Financial Times, and other newspapers.
A writer for BBC, the Guardian, Granta, Guernica, the New York Times and the Al Jazeera English, Waheed currently resides in London.
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A writer for BBC, the Guardian, Granta, Guernica, the New York Times and the Al Jazeera English, Waheed currently resides in London.
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 *
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