Curfewed Night

Hardcover

Winner of the Vodafone Crossword Non-Fiction Award

Basharat Peer was a teenager when the separatist movement exploded in Kashmir in 1989. Over the following years countless young men, seduced by the romance of the militant, fuelled by feelings of injustice, crossed over the Line of Control to train in Pakistani army camps. Peer was sent off to boarding school in Aligarh to keep out of trouble. He finished college and became a journalist in Delhi. But Kashmir - angrier, more violent, more hopeless - was never far away.

In 2003, the young journalist left his job and returned to his homeland to search out the stories and the people that had haunted him. In Curfewed Night he draws a harrowing and intensely moving portrait of Kashmir and its people.

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