Curfewed Night
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (837 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1439109117 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Basharat Peer's powerful memoir about growing up in war-torn Kashmir.
Peer longs for a brighter future while hoping that someday the war they were fighting would disappear like footsteps on winter snow. Death and dishonor have become commonplace for the victims, soldiers, and warriors. It is killing me, says one friend as life under occupation and terrorist threat grinds down upon him. From life in a village militarized by India to fleeing militants trained by Pakistan, Peer sees the conflict from the ground up and how both sides are so casually destroying what they want for their own. He is first and foremost an eloquent writer, and his ability to turn a phrase like a novelist, even when writing about the most devastating of truths, is what elevates this title. From Booklist *Starred Review* Native Kashmiri and journalist Peer writes carefully about
Dr. M. I. Vakil said powerful but sad. I lived in Kashmir during the 90's and while reading Curfewed night, I relived the terible events of those years. Basharat has done a great job of recording and compiling a sample of the immense suffering that Kashmiris endured during the 90s and continue to suffer the wider implications of the impasse. I bought powerful but sad Dr. M. I. Vakil I lived in Kashmir during the 90's and while reading Curfewed night, I relived the terible events of those years. Basharat has done a great job of recording and compiling a sample of the immense suffering that Kashmiris endured during the 90s and continue to suffer the wider implications of the impasse. I bought 4 copies after reading it to distribute to my friends and family.A must read for anyone interested in the Kashmir problem.. copies after reading it to distribute to my friends and family.A must read for anyone interested in the Kashmir problem.. "Report from a besieged city" according to bt. The book is a beautifully written account of the conflict in Kashmir, in which over 80,000 people have died since 1989. It is written by someone who spent his formative years during the conflict. Like all great books, this one is about human suffering, and what war does to people, to communities, to dreams, and to children's games. While the narrative follows author's own life, I admired the way it was never disruptive -- or worse, indulgent: you rarely see the author describe his own emotions; he builds a novelistic experience for the reader. This is true especially when narrating peopl. A memoir, not "the story of Kashmir" Sceptique500 as Ahmed Rashid intimates in his blurb. Well written, moving, this book is a hesitant collection of stories about people the author has known, or tracked down. In 1948 the state of Kashmir included not just the Valley, whose rural parts and people the author fondly describes (Shrinagar is poorly analysed), but the Indus Valley on the other side of the Line of Control, Ladakh, and Jammu. The latter parts are not there, except for some Pandit refugees, who could have lived anywhere in India.I liked the book. It does not contain much that is insightful, but it does give a good feel for what
He has worked as an editor at Foreign Affairs and served as a correspondent at Tehelka, India's leading English language weekly. . He studied journalism and politics at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. BASHARAT PEER was born in Kashmir in 1977. Peer is a Fellow at Open Society Institute and lives in New York. Curfewed Night, his first boo