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Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist's Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland
Curfewed Night One Kashmiri Journalist's Frontline Account of Life Love and War in His Homeland Author:Basharat Peer Basharat Peer's powerful memoir about growing up in war-torn Kashmir. — Since 1989, when the separatist movement exploded, more than seventy thousand people have been killed in the battle between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Born and raised in the war torn region, Basharat Peer bring this little-known part of the world to life in haunting... more », vivid detail.
Peer tells stories from his youth and give gut-wrenching accounts of the many Kashmiris he meet years later as a reporter. He chronicles a young man's initiation into a Pakistani training camp, a mother forced to watch her son hold an exploding bomb by Indian troops, a poet finding religion when his entire family is killed. He writes about politicians living in refurbished torture chambers, idyllic villages rigged with land mines, and ancient Sufi shrines decimated in bomb blasts.
Curfewed Night is a tale of a man's love for his land, the pain of leaving home, and the joy of return--as well as a fierce and moving piece of reportage from an intrepid young journalist.« less