Con sprazzi di brillantezza, tenerezza e rabbia, The Collaborator di Mirza Waheed fa ciò che la narrativa dovrebbe fare. Ti fa ascoltare' Arundhati Roy, autore di The God of Small Things Lungo le acque che scorrono nelle valli del Kashmir, ragazzi adolescenti vengono a giocare a cricket, parlare di ragazze e semplicemente essere. Ma qualche anno dopo, quando sono giovani uomini e la violenza attanaglia la regione, se ne vanno. Solo il figlio del capo locale è rimasto. Sa che i suoi amici sono scivolati oltre il confine in Pakistan e sono diventati militanti per imbracciare le armi contro l'esercito indiano. Vorrebbe unirsi a loro, ma non può. Invece, messo in una posizione impossibile da un capitano dell'esercito indiano, deve attraversare la terra d'ombra tra le fazioni opposte, un fantasma che cammina tra i morti. Il suo destino, come quello dei suoi fratelli perduti, sconosciuto. 'La prosa di Waheed brucia con la febbre della rabbia e della disperazione; le scene nella valle sono eccezionali, trasmettono un incubo vivente allucinatorio che è diventato una realtà quotidiana per i Kashmiri Metro "Waheed crea un'atmosfera di minaccia e disperazione. Il suo racconto possiede un potere inquietante che è sia persistente che profondo" Independent on Sunday "Avvincente. Un'importante e poetica testimonianza di una guerra fin troppo facilmente dimenticata" Daily Mail Mirza Waheed è nato e cresciuto in Kashmir. Il suo romanzo d'esordio The Collaborator è stato selezionato per il Guardian First Book Award e lo Shakti Bhat Prize, ed è stato inserito nella longlist per il Desmond Elliott Prize. È stato anche libro dell'anno per il Telegraph, il New Statesman, il Financial Times, il Business Standard e il Telegraph India. Waheed ha scritto per la BBC, il Guardian, Granta, Al Jazeera English e il New York Times. Vive a Londra.
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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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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 'With flashes of brilliance, tenderness and fury, Mirza Waheed's 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 Pakistan, and turned militant to bear arms against the Indian army. He would like to join them - but he cannot. Instead, put in an impossible position by an Indian army Captain, he must cross into the shadowland between the opposing sides, a ghost walking among the dead. His fate, like that of his lost brothers, unknown . . . 'Waheed's prose burns with the fever of anger and despair; the scenes in the valley are exceptional, conveying, a hallucinatory living nightmare that has become an everyday reality for Kashmiris' Metro 'Waheed builds an atmosphere of menace and despair . . . his tale possesses a disturbing power that is both lingering and profound' Independent on Sunday 'Compelling . . . An important and poetic testimony to an all-too-easily forgotten war' Daily Mail Mirza Waheed was born and brought up in Kashmir. His debut novel The Collaborator was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Shakti Bhat Prize, and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. It was also book of the year for the Telegraph, New Statesman, Financial Times, Business Standard and Telegraph India. Waheed has written for the BBC, the Guardian, Granta, Al Jazeera English and The New York Times. He lives in London. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR003605868
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