The Ghosts of Kashmir

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Neighbors make great friends ? and vicious enemies. This is the subtext of The Ghosts of Kashmir, Shankar Vedantam?s debut collection of short stories about the conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Ordinary Indians and Pakistanis in these stories find themselves torn between hostility and affinity, drawn together by common cultural histories and divided by the poisons of politics and pride. The inter-linked stories have the texture of parables, but they are fast-paced narratives where questions of history and politics are subtly explored through complex characters and dramatic situations. Mirroring the author?s perception of the conflict between India and Pakistan, many of the stories explore the absurd. The events, plots and characters appear simultaneously realistic and symbolic ? a literature whose antecedents span from Saadat Hasan Manto to Joseph Heller.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shankar Vedantam

Shankar Vedantam is a national staff writer at The Washington Post. Besides journalism, Vedantam also writes fiction and plays. His short stories have been published in Rosebud magazine and Catamaran magazine. Tom, Dick & Harriet, a play he co-authored with Donald C. Drake, was produced in Philadelphia at the Brick Playhouse in April 2004. Vedantam?s second play, Flying While Brown, was about civil liberties in America after the 9/11 attacks. The winner of numerous awards and fellowships, Vedantam is also the author of When Violence Masquerades as Virtue: A Brief History of Terrorism, part of the 2003 book Violence or Dialogue, published by the International Psychoanalytic Association. The Ghosts of Kashmir is Vedantam?s first collection of short stories.

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Title
The Ghosts of Kashmir
Author
Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8187943793
Length
200
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