Description
Basharat Peer's haunting, beautifully written memoir of growing up in Kashmir during the most violent years of the insurgency is one of the most important and most intimate documents of that conflict produced in English—a first-person account of curfews, disappearances, encounters, and the particular quality of fear that becomes ordinary when it goes on long enough. Written with the restraint and the moral intelligence of a writer who understands that the facts are more devastating than any rhetoric, this is essential reading for every person who wants to understand Kashmir from the inside. An extraordinary and necessary memoir.
