The Book Of Gold Leaves
Autor Mirza Waheeden Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iun 2015
Mirza Waheed's extraordinary new novelThe Book of Gold Leavesis a heartbreaking love story set in war-torn Kashmir.
In an ancient house in the city of Srinagar, Faiz paints exquisite Papier Mache pencil boxes for tourists. Evening is beginning to slip into night when he sets off for the shrine. There he finds the woman with the long black hair.
Roohi is prostrate before her God. She begs for the boy of her dreams to come and take her away. Roohi wants a love story.
An age-old tale of love, war, temptation, duty and choice,The Book of Gold Leavesis a heartbreaking tale of a what might have been, what could have been, if only.
'I loved it. The voice is lyrical, to match the beauty of Kashmir, and yet it is tinged with melancholy and grief, as is the story it tells' Nadeem Aslam (onThe Collaborator)
'Waheed's prose burns with the fever of anger and despair; the scenes in the valley are exceptional, conveying, a hallucinatory living nightmare that has become an everyday reality for Kashmiris'Metro(onThe Collaborator).
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241970829
ISBN-10: 0241970822
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241970822
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Mirza
Waheed
was
born
and
brought
up
in
Kashmir.
His
debut
novelThe
Collaboratorwas
shortlisted
for
theGuardianFirst
Book
Award
and
the
Shakti
Bhat
Prize,
and
longlisted
for
the
Desmond
Elliott
Prize.
It
was
also
book
of
the
year
for
theTelegraph,New
Statesman,Financial
Times,Business
StandardandTelegraph
India.
Waheed
has
written
for
the
BBC,
theGuardian,Granta,
Al
Jazeera
English
andTheNew
York
Times.
He
lives
in
London.
Recenzii
A
haunting
illustrationof
how,
at
the
end
of
last
century,
normal
life
became
impossible
for
many
of
those
who
call
Kashmir
home
.
.
.Waheed's
talent
lies
in
the
vivid,
convincing
detail
he
brings
to
descriptions
of
everyday
lives.The
careful
meshing
of
domestic
intimacy
with
political
events
is
done
deftly,
with
integrity.Like
his
great-grandfather's
gold
painting,
Waheed's
work
will
undoubtedly
endure
Waheedwrites about war with a devastating and unflinching calm, with the melancholy wisdom of someone attuned to but never hardened by its horrors. . .Hehas a formidable insight into his large cast of characters, from the elegant grief-stricken principal of the girls' school taken over by Indian officers to the spoilt boy-turned-insurgent who betrays his own father
A harrowing tale of love in a time of conflict and change. . . The language in this book is lyrical, indeed at times it seems to be poetry masquerading as prose.The Book of Gold Leavesisthe sort of book one can read and re-read - and then read again
A dazzling and heart-breaking storyset in war-torn Kashmir -essential reading
Waheed writes about Kashmir with compassion, not anger . . . [and] one finds a strange and terrible beauty.There are no heroes or villains in this exquisite book, just a palpable grief for what might have been
A beautifully told and finely choreographed story of love, art and conflict in Kashmir
Waheed's new novel returns to 1990s Kashmir. IfThe Collaboratorwas journalistic in its zeal to explain Kashmir . . . [here]what keeps you reading is the story. He relies on family dynamics to drive the action . . . it's ultimatelyhow the novel accounts for the moral toll of war
Poetic and political with a warm sensuousness,The Book of Gold Leavesis the year's best book.As beautifully written as the paintings on papier mache that one of its central characters executes, this fine examination of the Kashmiri condition througha Sunni-Shia love story leaves the reader both wretched and transformed, and brings us to a greater understanding of the fragility of love in a harsh climate
Like the gold leaves of the book's title, Waheed's prose is like pixie dust, sprinkled all over a city of heartbreak and despair.It is a city that has found in Waheed, the great-grandson of a much-admired papier-mache artist, its truest troubadour.Read him and weep.
A romance set against the backdrop of unrest in the Kashmiri valleyin the 1990s, Waheed's second novelexplores the reasons behind young men taking to bloodshed
Waheedwrites about war with a devastating and unflinching calm, with the melancholy wisdom of someone attuned to but never hardened by its horrors. . .Hehas a formidable insight into his large cast of characters, from the elegant grief-stricken principal of the girls' school taken over by Indian officers to the spoilt boy-turned-insurgent who betrays his own father
A harrowing tale of love in a time of conflict and change. . . The language in this book is lyrical, indeed at times it seems to be poetry masquerading as prose.The Book of Gold Leavesisthe sort of book one can read and re-read - and then read again
A dazzling and heart-breaking storyset in war-torn Kashmir -essential reading
Waheed writes about Kashmir with compassion, not anger . . . [and] one finds a strange and terrible beauty.There are no heroes or villains in this exquisite book, just a palpable grief for what might have been
A beautifully told and finely choreographed story of love, art and conflict in Kashmir
Waheed's new novel returns to 1990s Kashmir. IfThe Collaboratorwas journalistic in its zeal to explain Kashmir . . . [here]what keeps you reading is the story. He relies on family dynamics to drive the action . . . it's ultimatelyhow the novel accounts for the moral toll of war
Poetic and political with a warm sensuousness,The Book of Gold Leavesis the year's best book.As beautifully written as the paintings on papier mache that one of its central characters executes, this fine examination of the Kashmiri condition througha Sunni-Shia love story leaves the reader both wretched and transformed, and brings us to a greater understanding of the fragility of love in a harsh climate
Like the gold leaves of the book's title, Waheed's prose is like pixie dust, sprinkled all over a city of heartbreak and despair.It is a city that has found in Waheed, the great-grandson of a much-admired papier-mache artist, its truest troubadour.Read him and weep.
A romance set against the backdrop of unrest in the Kashmiri valleyin the 1990s, Waheed's second novelexplores the reasons behind young men taking to bloodshed