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Journalist Shakoor Rather’s debut novel
Life in the Clock Tower Valley skims through Kashmir’s uncertain life. It takes off with a 2008 love story, unspools in the city landscape and soon nosedives into the troubled history of the place, the plot is set in.
As the new generation, Kashmir has started telling their stories, they mostly revolve around the situations in which they grew up. Rather’s story is no different. It also offers mundane realities and emotions of life, records daily experiences and otherwise ignored observations. As the love story races through it, the plot stops the reckless lovers from the public display of passion.
Even as another book Life in the Clock Tower Valley emerges from Kashmir, its author, Shakoor Rather says that while many past books have shone a light on the conflict in Kashmir, his debut novel takes a different approach by depicting the .
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New Delhi: Speaking Tiger Books announces the launch of Shakoor Rather’s debut novel ‘Life in the Clock Tower Valley’, a book about Kashmir’s pristine past, its grievous present, and always uncertain future.
Set in the picturesque Srinagar, the novel provides an insider’s view of everyday life and emotions in the conflict-ridden valley. The book, published by Speaking Tiger Books, also highlights fascinating historical and political information about Kashmir as well as environmental issues that are seldom talked about.
‘Life in the Clock Tower Valley’ is a requiem for our past that we hold closer and long for. It is about nostalgia, love, and loss,” said Shakoor Rather.