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Author Peer, Basharat, 1977-

Title Curfewed night : One Kashmiri journalist's frontline account of life, love, and war in his homeland / Basharat Peer.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  954 P34    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  954 P34    Check Shelf
Description 223 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Note "1st Scribner hardcover ed." -- t.p.verso
Contents Fragile fairyland -- Freedom songs -- Very long miles -- Bunkeristan -- Shalimar express -- A close call -- Situation -- The trial -- I see you again -- City of no joy -- Papa-2 -- Heroes -- Price of life -- In the courtyards of faith -- The missing shiva -- The black blanket.
Summary Curfewed Night is a brave and unforgettable piece of literary reporting that reveals the personal stories behind one of the most brutal conflicts in modern times. Since 1989, when the separatist movement exploded, more than seventy thousand people have been killed in the battle between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Born and raised in the war-torn region, Basharat Peer brings this little-known part of the world to life in haunting, vivid detail. -- From book jacket.
Subject Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic conflict -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir.
Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements.
Peer, Basharat, 1977-
Journalists -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir -- Biography.
Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- Biography.
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