The Collaborator
Mirza Waheed
  • Published: 16 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141048581
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $45.00

The Collaborator

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2 May 2011
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16 Apr 2012
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'With flashes of brilliance, tenderness and fury, 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 . . .
  • Published: 16 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141048581
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $45.00
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Praise for The Collaborator

With flashes of brilliance, tenderness and fury, The Collaborator does what fiction should. It makes you listen

Arundhati Roy

Devastating . . . haunting . . . gripping in its narrative drama

Guardian

Compelling . . . An important and poetic testimony to an all-too-easily forgotten war

Daily Mail

Waheed builds an atmosphere of menace and despair . . . his tale possesses a disturbing power that is both lingering and profound

Independent on Sunday

A powerful first novel

Books of the Year, Financial Times

A thrilling, powerful debut

Sunday Times

A beautifully realized account of horror, grief and the psychological trauma of war

Observer

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
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