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''Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir'' is a memoir on the conflict in Kashmir by the Indian journalist Basharat Peer. It won the Crossword Prize for Non-Fiction and was chosen among the Books of the Year by The Economist and The New Yorker. 〔http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/books-and-more-basharat-peer-s-haider-and-curfewed-nights-lifts-the-veil-on-conflict-in-kashmir-2051404〕 ==Plot== The book is a depiction of the author's rather personal tale of his life in the militant 1990's of Kashmir. Despite his family’s pleas, the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front attack an Indian convoy close by their village. The army’s reprisals will be swift and the family quickly grab their possessions. In the end they return home to find only a few bullets stuck in the walls, which Peer’s grandfather pulls out with pliers. A few years later Peer’s father survives a militant attack on him, justified because he works as a civil servant in a government run by Delhi. He was, according to rumour, betrayed by a jealous rival at work. After becoming a journalist for an Indian newspaper, Peer reports on other wars far away from home but is inevitably drawn back to Kashmir. The second half of his book records his interviews with victims of the army occupation. Another sinister development is the increasing prominence in the conflict of Pakistani-funded radical groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, which carry out suicide attacks in Kashmir, India and even in Pakistan itself against Sufi and Shia mosques. These groups also often have links with the Taliban. The book ends in April 2005, with the hopeful resumption of a bus route between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir. But five years on, despite occasional gestures from both governments, freedom is still a distant prospect for the people of Kashmir. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Curfewed Night」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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