Full name: Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir

Author: Basharat Peer Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Award winners, Politics, Memoirs, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9781439109106

"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. Peer tells stories from his youth and gives gut-wrenching accounts of the many Kashmiris he met years later as a reporter. He chronicles a young man's initiation into a Pakistani training camp, a mother forced to watch her son hold an exploding bomb by Indian troops, a poet finding religion when his entire family is killed. He writes about politicians living in refurbished torture chambers, idyllic villages rigged with land mines, and ancient Sufi shrines decimated in bomb blasts. "Curfewed Night" is a tale of a man's love for his land, the pain of leaving home, and the joy of return -- as well as a fierce and moving piece of reportage from an intrepid young journalist. Similar books: What Happened by Hillary Clinton Five Presidents by Clint Hill Going Rogue by Sarah Palin Unbelievable by Katy Tur The Threat by Andrew G. McCabe Detroit by Charlie LeDuff Sisters First by Jenna Bush Hager My Life by Bill Clinton Walking with the Wind by John Lewis Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir The Matriarch by Susan Page Facts and Fears by James R. Clapper The World as It Is by Ben Rhodes Outpost by Christopher R. Hill True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy Argo by Antonio J. Mendez John Brown, Abolitionist by David S. Reynolds See No Evil by Robert Baer An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter