Book set in Srinagar, Kashmir. Reviewed on 2019/07: https://www.instagram.com/p/B0WSgnYgUUM/
The best thing that #curfewednight does is to transport the reader into a reality beyond the news headlines and one that resembles more the #dailylives of #kashmiri people. Daily lives for them include gunshots, kidnappings, torture and all kinds of terrorism coming at them from every angle outside as well as inside. It’s sometimes difficult to believe that #basharatpeer wrote a #memoir instead of a fictional story. #peer uses both his journalistic as well literary skills to entice the writer into experiencing the oppressing lives but also into the resilience of surviving and to believe that survival is still an option. The endless war in #kashmir is obviously a main character in this story. But the literary space is also shared by the stories of humans living their daily realities. The best thing about this book is how Peer combines the contradicting but sometimes complementary forces of war and love. #recommended#kashmiriliterature #nonfiction#autobiographical #srinagar #conflict#crosswordprizefornonfiction#allaroundviolence #scribnerbooks#wartorn #journalist
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