THE COLLABORATOR
Book ID/图书代码： 03635010B39888
English Summary/英文概要： It is Kashmir in the early 1990s and war has finally reached the isolated village of Nowgam close to the Pakistan border. Indian soldiers appear as if from nowhere to hunt for militants on the run. Four teenage boys, who used to spend their afternoons playing cricket, or singing Bollywood ballads down by the river, have disappeared one by one, to cross into Pakistan and join the movement against the Indian army. Only one of their friends, the son of the headman, is left behind. The families in the village begin to think it’s time to flee, to search for a place of greater safety. But the headman will not allow his family to leave. And, whilst(while) the headman watches his dreams give way beneath the growing violence, his son, under the brutal, drunken gaze of the Indian army captain, is seemingly forced to collaborate and go into the valley to count the corpses, fearing, each day, that he will discover one of his friends lying amongst the dead. "The Colloborator" is a stunningly humane work of storytelling with a poignant and unpredictable hero at its heart. In one of the most shocking and brilliantly compelling novels of recent times Mirza Waheed lights our way into the heart of a war that is all too real.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本應是與世無爭的人間樂園- 喀什米爾
卻被中國、印度和巴基斯坦三分天下，烽火四起
原本過著悠閒生活的四個男孩
戰爭卻改變了他們的命運，導向不可測的未來…
1990年，印度和巴基斯坦為爭奪喀什米爾地區，經常在此地發生衝突，因此這裡長期處於戰火之中，就連喀什米爾最偏遠的村莊也無法倖免於難。印度軍人在這裡神出鬼沒，到處獵殺逃竄的反抗者。村莊裡的四個年輕男孩，原本過著每天下午的悠閒生活，現在卻一個接一個跑去加入反抗軍，其中一個男孩因為是部落酋長的孩子而被同伴留在家鄉。因戰火逼近，酋長的家人想要逃離家鄉，另覓安全之地，但酋長不許家人離開。他死守家園，卻看著自己的家園，他篳路藍縷打造的心血結晶，在日益兇猛的炮火下被轟成碎片。他的兒子只能屈服於印度軍隊的槍管之下，每一天都滿懷恐懼的到被屠殺的村落去算同胞屍骸的數目。直到有一天，他在其中一個滿目瘡痍的村落裡，發現當初滿懷壯志跑去加入反抗軍的朋友屍體……。(Chris)
Awards/获奖情况：桐山環太平洋文學獎得主阿斯蘭(Nadeem Aslam)熱淚盈眶推薦！ Review
With flashes of brilliance, tenderness and fury, The Collaborator does what fiction should. It makes you listen. The tragedy unfolding in Kashmir is not easy to write about without falling into platitudes and empty slogans. Mirza Waheed pulls it off -- Arundhati Roy I loved it. The voice is lyrical, to match the beauty of Kashmir, and yet is tinged with melancholy and grief. I was shaking at times, was livid at times and was moved to tears ultimately---Nadeem Aslam, Author Of Maps For Lost Lovers
阿斯蘭，巴基斯坦裔英籍作家，《給迷途戀人的地圖》作者，桐山環太平洋文學獎得主
About the Author/作者介绍： Mirza Waheed was born and brought up in Srinagar , Kashmir. He moved to Delhi when he was eighteen to study English Literature at the University of Delhi and worked as a journalist in the city for four years. He came to London in 2001 to join the BBC’s Urdu Service, where he now works as an editor. Waheed attended the Arvon Foundation in 2007. The Collaborator is his first novel.
米爾薩‧瓦希德(Mirza Waheed)在喀什米爾出生，他的童年和青少年時期都待在喀什米爾。在18歲時，他到印度德里大學唸書，畢業之後當了四年記者。2001年他到倫敦發展，進入英國廣播電視台(BBC)工作，現今他是BBC烏爾都語部門(Urdu Service)的編輯。他在2007年加入阿爾文基金會(Arvon Foundation)，《The Colloborator》是他的第一本小說。
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