{"product_id":"9780241968116","title":"The Book Of Gold Leaves","description":"12775B - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMirza Waheed's extraordinary new novel \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Gold Leaves \u003c\/i\u003eis a heartbreaking love story set in war-torn Kashmir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoohi is prostrate before her God. She begs for the boy of her dreams to come and take her away. Roohi wants a love story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn age-old tale of love, war, temptation, duty and choice, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Gold Leaves \u003c\/i\u003eis a heartbreaking tale of a what might have been, what could have been, if only.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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 \u003ci\u003eThe Collaborator\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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' \u003ci\u003eMetro\u003c\/i\u003e (on \u003ci\u003eThe Collaborator\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMirza Waheed was born and brought up in Kashmir. His debut novel\u003ci\u003e The Collaborator\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Shakti Bhat Prize, and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. It was also book of the year for \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBusiness Standard\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTelegraph India\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. Waheed has written for the BBC, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, Granta, Al Jazeera English and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167827345648,"sku":"9780241968116","price":10.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780241968116_p0.jpg?v=1763679707","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780241968116","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}