The Collaborator
by
by
Mirzaz Waheed
Signed
Published by Penguin Viking
London, 2011
New
First edition, first printing. Signed and dated by the author. Fine paperback original.
A novel set in the troubled world of Kashmir. The book is set in the early 1990’s, but the issues in Kashmir remain. The author was brought up in the borderland area between India and Pakistan and knows its tragic history only too well. Now living and working in London as a BBC radio Journalist, Mirza Waheed’s narrative follows the teenage collaborator of the novel’s title as he finds himself trying to understand the circumstances that have seen him doing the enemy’s dirty work for them.
"Devastating debut novel", Kamil Shamsie, The Guardian.
"Waheed writes with a melancholy lyricism that is in sharp contrast to the jarring, gruesome realities he describes. It is a dogged, yet beautifully realised account of horror, grief and the psychological trauma of war", Mary Fitzgerald, The Observer.
"A powerful debut", Anthony Cummins, The Sunday Times.
