The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed

The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed

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.

With flashes of brilliance, tenderness and fury, The Collaborator does what fiction shouldIt 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 *

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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ISBN 13	9780141048581
ISBN 10	0141048581
Title	The Collaborator
Author	Mirza Waheed
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2012-01-19
Number of pages	320
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