Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir

Politics & Social Sciences

Basharat Peer

Politics & Government

Harper Press

<p>Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and Winner of the Crossword Prize for Non-fiction '"Curfewed Night" is a passionate and important book -- a brave and brilliant report from a conflict the world has chosen to ignore.' Salman Rushdie Basharat Peer was a teenager when the separatist movement exploded in Kashmir in 1989. Over the following years countless young men, fuelled by feelings of injustice, crossed over the 'Line of Control' to train in Pakistani army camps. Peer was sent off to boarding school in Aligarh to keep out of trouble. He finished college and became a journalist in Delhi. But Kashmir -- angrier, more violent, more hopeless -- was never far away. In 2003 Peer, now a young journalist, left his job and returned to his homeland. Drawing a harrowing portrait of Kashmir and her people -- a mother forced to watch her son hold an exploding bomb, politicians living in refurbished torture chambers, picturesque villages riddled with landmines -- this is above all, a story of what it really means to return home -- and the discovery that there may not be any redemption in it. Lyrical, spare, gut-wrenching and intimate, Curfewed Night is a powerful and intensely moving debut, combining the insight of a journalist with the prose of a poet.</p>

Curfewed Night: A Memoir of War in Kashmir

Curfewed Night

Efinito

Winner of the Utne Reader Independent Press Award for Best Writing 2006. Technological excess, from email to porn to blogs. Basharat Peer sees torture in Kashmir, Eli S. Evans watches television in Los Angeles. A fable by Benjamin Kunkel, fiction about nuclear proliferation, a report on flying cars.

n+1 Issue 5: Decivilizing Process

Nancy Bauer

Mark Greif

Benjamin Kunkel

Keith Gessen

Daniel Albert

Carla Blumenkranz

Joshua Glenn

Imraan Coovadia

Rebecca Curtis

Eli S. Evans

Meghan Falvey

Gemma Sieff

Literature & Fiction

n+1 Foundation

<p>A memoir, not "the story of Kashmir" 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.</p>

Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer (2009-05-04)

Random House]

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Haider

Vishal Bhardwaj

HarperCollins Publishers, India

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