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'A passionate and important book – a brave and brilliant report from a conflict the world has chosen to ignore.' Salman Rushdie
‘One of the finest books I’ve read this year…Basharat Peer’s memoir reminds us why peace in Kashmir is important, not just to India and Pakistan, but to the world.’ Hari Kunzru, Guardian
'’”Curfewed Night” is the finest book I have read on the contemporary Kashmir conflict – literary, humane, clear-eyed and reliable. Basharat Peer has given voice, unforgettably, to a generation of Kashmiris who have never been heard, but who should be.' Steve Coll
‘An extraordinary memoir that does a great deal to bring the Kashmir conflict out of the realm of political rhetoric between India and Pakistan…one of the great achievements of “Curfewed Night” is its seamless mingling of memoir and reportage…It is a formidable challenge to tell the stories of Kashmir's suffering without numbing the readers' senses, and that Peer is able to do so is testament to his gifts and and sensitivity as a writer’ Guardian
‘Fresh and poignant…Peer's tone is non–judgmental…”Curfewed Night” has made his own valuable contribution to Orwell's mission making the political writing an art’ The Economist
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Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and Winner of the Crossword Prize for Non-fiction
‘“Curfewed Night” is a passionate and important book – a brave and brilliant report from a conflict the world has chosen to ignore.' Salman Rushdie
Basharat Peer was a teenager when the separatist movement exploded in Kashmir in 1989. Over the following years countless young men, fuelled by feelings of injustice, crossed over the ‘Line of Control’ to train in Pakistani army camps. Peer was sent off to boarding school in Aligarh to keep out of trouble. He finished college and became a journalist in Delhi. But Kashmir – angrier, more violent, more hopeless – was never far away.
In 2003 Peer, now a young journalist, left his job and returned to his homeland. Drawing a harrowing portrait of Kashmir and her people – a mother forced to watch her son hold an exploding bomb, politicians living in refurbished torture chambers, picturesque villages riddled with landmines – this is above all, a story of what it really means to return home – and the discovery that there may not be any redemption in it.
Lyrical, spare, gut-wrenching and intimate, Curfewed Night is a powerful and intensely moving debut, combining the insight of a journalist with the prose of a poet.
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There is an important story to be told about Kashmir. But you won't find it here. It is lacking in focus, clarity of thought and does not have the courage to explore the history and reality of the region as fully as it deserves. Too often the author backs away from confronting things.
He also fails to present a balanced picture of the politics of the conflict. By choosing memoir as the basis for his book, he has limited his ability to engage with the political nuances of all sides and is unable (or unwilling) to present us with all the necessary insight.
His use of language is stilted and there is a lack of flow to many of the paragraphs. For a region with so many horrific stories, there is a lack of passion in his prose which is quite alienating for the reader.
Kashmir deserves a much better book than this.
Having said that, it is definitely something which will hold your interest and you will go back in time to question what your understanding of the same situation was.
Like the other reviewer, I fail to understand why this book has got so many recommendations from all and sundry - Maybe a HarperPress thing. William Dalrymple summarises it best - `An excellent account of growing up during the uprising in Kashmir' , but not ground-breaking or spectacular.
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