The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed book review .it is for project . so do not post irrelevant answer .it is any kashmiri authors books
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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 Collaborator' 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. Less
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To write a love story, and put in the backdrop of a violent, turbulent period, can be an invitation for easy clichés. For, it would seem much easier a task to plot a doomed love when you can do away with the more complex working out of fissures within the lovers themselves, or that placement of an individual or a social barrier, or fate, which often enough are the ‘villains’ in many of the classical-form love stories. In a period of acute strife, on the other hand, you can let the story drift into inevitable tragedy, another hallmark of grand love narratives, or relapse into it, rather more easily.
Mirza Waheed has written two novels now, and though both are set in Kashmir – in a rural, ‘on the edge of the border’ area in the first one, ‘The Collaborator’, and squarely in predominantly almost one part of Srinagar (which, as happenstance would have it, is the general area of birth and childhood of this reviewer) in the second, new one, ‘The Book of Gold Leaves’ – and though both books largely deal with Kashmiri human experiences during the darkest periods of the ’90s, when violence so peaked, was so nakedly savage as to make the shattered Kashmiri beings in both of these books utterly possible, and so while both books thus occupy, for Kashmiris, that space where fiction is lived as reality, they are still quite different books.
‘The Collaborator’ was anguish, raw, often clenched-teeth anger, reflected sharply in the premise of the story itself, and as well as in the maturity of craft – which, mind you, was still seen as the arrival of a new talent, still good enough to make people sit up and take notice. Let’s just say it was the first book of ‘fiction’ of a Kashmiri author, identifying himself as a Kashmiri first and foremost, and staking claim to tell Kashmiri stories. With ‘The Book of Gold Leaves’, Mirza is now staking quiet claim as a confident, maturing writer.
And it’s that maturing, that heightened attention to craft and detail, the deepening of a sensibility that rescues the love story, of Roohi and Faiz, the papier mache artist and the beautiful same-mohalla girl, and that of the writer’s love for his city and his people too, from the dangers of clichés the reader may discern in the early parts of the book.
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