{"product_id":"collaborator","title":"Collaborator","description":"\u003cp\u003e''With flashes of brilliance, tenderness and fury, Mirza Waheed''s \u003ci\u003eThe Collaborator \u003c\/i\u003edoes what fiction should. It makes you listen'' Arundhati Roy, author of \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstead, 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 . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''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''  \u003ci\u003eMetro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Waheed builds an atmosphere of menace and despair . . . his tale possesses a disturbing power that is both lingering and profound''  \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Compelling . . . An important and poetic testimony to an all-too-easily forgotten war''  \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMirza Waheed was born and brought up in Kashmir. His debut novel\u003ci\u003e The Collaborator\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e First Book Award and the Shakti Bhat Prize, and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. It was also book of the year for the \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBusiness Standard\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTelegraph India\u003c\/i\u003e. Waheed has written for the BBC, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, Al Jazeera English and \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319912276350,"sku":"NW9780141048581","price":9.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141048581.jpg?v=1778728494","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/collaborator","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}