9780007513635-0007513631-Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir

Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir

ISBN-13: 9780007513635
ISBN-10: 0007513631
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Malik Sajad
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Format: Hardcover 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780007513635
ISBN-10: 0007513631
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Malik Sajad
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Format: Hardcover 352 pages

Summary

Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir (ISBN-13: 9780007513635 and ISBN-10: 0007513631), written by authors Malik Sajad, was published by Fourth Estate in 2015. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.43.

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A beautifully drawn graphic novel that illuminates the conflicted land of Kashmir, through a young boy’s childhood.

Seven-year-old Munnu is growing up in Indian-administered Kashmir. Life revolves around his family: Mama, Papa, sister Shahnaz, brothers Adil and Akhtar and, his favourite, older brother Bilal. It also revolves around Munnu’s two favourite things – sugar and drawing.

But Munnu’s is a childhood experienced against the backdrop of conflict. Bilal’s classmates are crossing over into the Pakistan-administered portion of Kashmir to be trained to resist the ‘occupation’; Papa and Bilal are regularly taken by the military to identification parades where informers will point out ‘terrorists’; Munnu’s school is closed; close neighbours are killed and the homes of Kashmiri Hindu families lie abandoned, as once close, mixed communities have ruptured under the pressure of Kashmir’s divisions.

Munnu is an amazingly personal insight into everyday life in Kashmir. Closely based on Malik Sajad’s own childhood and experiences, it is a beautiful, evocatively drawn graphic novel that questions every aspect of the Kashmir situation – the faults and responsibilities of every side, the history of the region, the role of Britain and the West, the possibilities for the future. It opens up the story of this contested and conflicted land, while also giving a brilliantly close, funny and warm-hearted portrait of a boy’s childhood and coming-of-age.

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