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The Collaborator

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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (2011)
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Book Summary of The Collaborator

  • The first novel that will make you understand why young men leave their homes and families to fight
  • Reminiscient of The Reluctant Fundamentalist , Curfewed Night , A Case of Exploding Mangoes and for readers of Khaled Hosseini , Nadeem Aslam and Basharat Peer
  • I loved it. The voice is lyrical, to match the beauty of Kashmir, and yet it is tinged with melancholy and grief, as is the story it tells' Nadeem Aslam
  • A stunningly humane work of storytelling with a poignant and unpredictable hero at its heart. Mirza Waheed is a major new talent
  • Goes to the heart of the long-standing conflict between India and Pakistan
  • 'A brilliant , important first novel from a very promising writer…' Mohammed Hanif , author of A Case of Exploding mangoes

  • It is Kashmir in the early 1990s and war has finally reached the isolated village of Nowgam close to the Pakistan border. Indian soldiers appear as if from nowhere to hunt for militants on the run. Four teenage boys, who used to spend their afternoons playing cricket, or singing Bollywood ballads down by the river, have disappeared one by one, to cross into Pakistan and join the movement against the Indian army. Only one of their friends, the son of the headman, is left behind.

    The families in the village begin to think it's time to flee, to search for a place of greater safety. But the headman will not allow his family to leave. And, whilst the headman watches his dreams give way beneath the growing violence, his son, under the brutal, drunken gaze of the Indian army captain, is seemingly forced to collaborate and go into the valley to count the corpses, fearing, each day, that he will discover one of his friends lying amongst the dead. The Colloborator is a stunningly humane work of storytelling with a poignant and unpredictable hero at its heart. In one of the most shocking and brilliantly compelling novels of recent times Mirza Waheed lights our way into the heart of a war that is all too real.

    About the Author
    Mirza Waheed was born and brought up in Srinagar, Kashmir. He moved to Delhi when he was eighteen to study English Literature at the University of Delhi and worked as a journalist in the city for four years. He came to London in 2001 to join the BBC's Urdu Service, where he now works as an editor. Waheed attended the Arvon Foundation in 2007. The Collaborator is his first novel.
     

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    11 July 11
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    Fantastic Read

    It's a gripping and brutally honest description of the people of Kashmir, in an absolutely unbiased and neutral tone, but the most astonishing feature of the book is the quality of the language, which borders on poetry in some parts. It you want to know about what has happened to the ordinary man in Kashmiri over the past two years, you must read this book.

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    03 December 11
    Differences between a "news" and the actual "scene of war"

    I am wondering how someone can write so much on such a small plot. Anyway, this book has been beautifully written. You will love reading it. The views in this book also look to be impartial and genuine. It will enable you to differentiate between a "news" and the actual "scene" out there, which might help all pseudo intellects like us.

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    12 February 12
    One sided view

    The author had taken a very narrow view of the situations or the problems faced by the ordinary "Kashmiris" while writing this book, as he narrates about the "kashmiris" belonging to a particular community only. However more problems were faced by 'other' kashmiris too (KP's) which has been totally ignored in this book.

    In short, this book tells you that the people who suffered were only Kashmiri Muslims and no one else....ridiculous

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    20 June 11
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    Great book to read

    A good book written in poetric style,which will take your soul to kashmir in no time,state of heart of a young boy who is so alone that only his imagination is there with him and at last fill your mind and heart with sorrow and grief.

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    24 March 11

    the truth of kashmir

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    Details of Book: The Collaborator

    Book: The Collaborator
    Author: Mirza Waheed
    ISBN:

    0670920525

    ISBN-13:

    9780670920525

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    978-0670920525

    Binding: Hardcover
    Publishing Date: 2011
    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Number of Pages: 336
    Language: English
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