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Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist's Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland

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Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist's Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland

Since 1989, when the separatist movement exploded in Kashmir, more than 70,000 people have been killed in the battle between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Born and raised in the war-torn region, Basharat Peer brings this little-known part of the world to life in haunting, vivid detail..

Peer reveals stories from his youth as well as gut-wrenching accounts of the many Kashmiris he met years later, as a reporter. He chronicles a young manâ€™s initiation into a Pakistani training camp; a mother who watches as her son is forced to hold an exploding bomb; a poet who finds religion when his entire family is killed. He writes about politicians living in refurbished torture chambers, idyllic villages rigged with landmines, and ancient Sufi shrines decimated in bomb blasts..

Curfewed Night is a tale of a manâ€™s love for his land, the pain of leaving home, and the joy of returnâ€”as well as a fiercely brave piece of literary reporting..
Country USA
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2010-02-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781439109106

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