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The Book of Gold Leaves (2014)

door Mirza Waheed

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Shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016 Mirza Waheed's extraordinary new novel The Book of Gold Leaves is 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 Leaves is 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 (on The 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 (on The Collaborator).… (meer)

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Found this a slow read which I didn't really get into. I have read other novels set in the Indian subcontinent so I don't think this is due to a lack of cultural knowledge as much as the author's style.
I believe the background to the story is the unrest of the late 1980s and 1990s and the Gawakadal massacre of January 1990. I get the feel of an Indian film. Two young people fall in love across a religious divide (Sunni-Shia Islam). He is an artist, highly creative but poorly educated, who turns freedom fighter, she is highly educated and beautiful.
To me the book highlighted the ridiculousness of religious divides, close adherence to societal expectations and an unwholesome desire for power. Without these, many power struggles would dissolve, local, national and international. (

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Having received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway book, I was anxious to read this novel, which was described as a love story. As I attempted to read this work, however, I could not get involved in the emotional aspects of the story, and I wondered if my lack of cultural or historical background knowledge prevented me from feeling more than detached regarding the secret meetings and developing relationship between Faiz and Roohi. I kept persevering through the book because the author writes in such descriptive, exacting prose, worthy of an award-winning writer, but perhaps, because of the melancholy nature of the story, I wanted to put it down each time I read. Despite my lack of enthusiasm over the story, I did give it three stars because I felt that this novel was a worthy read, just not my ‘cup of tea.’ (

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*Shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016* Mirza Waheed's extraordinary new novel The Book of Gold Leaves is 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 Leaves is 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 (on The 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 (on The Collaborator).

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