The Collaborator
$30.27
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
16 April 2012
Summary
‘With flashes of brilliance, tenderness and fury, The Collaborator does what fiction should. It makes you listen’ Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things
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 Pakist…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141048581 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141048581 |
| Author: | Mirza Waheed |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 16 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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A powerful first novel
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 *
About The Author
Mirza Waheed
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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