THE LION OF KASHMIR
- Category Literature & Fiction
- Format Paperback
- Imprint Rupa
- Price 295
- ISBN: 978-93-5333-817-6
- Pages: 268 pages
- Date: 1st January 2020
ABOUT THIS BOOK
From the Commonwealth Prize-winning author comes another intense story from Kashmir.
Commandant Abdul Aziz, Special Forces, Kashmir is a legendary police officer in the valley, albeit not always for good reasons.
And then one day he disappears.
His daughter, Zooni, a human rights activist has to return home for her missing father. Bizarre
events unfold in the ensuing night at a safe house where she’s forced to stay and where she comes face-to-face with the most disturbing truth of her life, and of the lives of her father and half-brother.
Through the eyes of the daughter are seen the dilemma and the moral crisis of a legendary police officer torn between his past and present, duty and desertion, loyalty and treachery, and right and wrong. Award-winning author Siddhartha Gigoo’s The Lion of Kashmir is not just a story of a father and daughter’s intrepid struggles in Kashmir, but also the story of present-day Kashmir itself.
