IN
THE VALLEY OF MIST: Kashmir—a divided region long the subject of
a fierce territorial dispute between the countries of India and
Pakistan—is one of the most beautiful, volatile areas of the
world. A hotbed of fundamentalism, it is a region that many feel
holds the key to the ongoing conflict between the Middle East and
the West. Yet for many in the Western world, it remains enshrouded
in mystery, an area only heard of when reports of violence and war
surface. Now, in her groundbreaking new book, IN THE VALLEY
OF MIST, acclaimed journalist Justine Hardy pulls back
the curtain on the Kashmir Valley, an area wrought by constant war
for twenty years, as she recounts the experiences of the Dars, a
local family she has known for over a decade. Hardy knows the region
of Kashmir intimately, having traveled to or lived there for most
of her life. In 1989 simmering tensions erupted into a generation
of full-blown warfare, and in the book she chronicles the changing
in the region in the intervening years, providing heartbreaking
details of the physical and mental toll the conflict has taken on
the region’s residents. Hardy has been a journalist for twenty-one
years, many of those spent covering the long conflict in Kashmir.
She writes for The Financial Times and freelances for The
Times, various Condé Nast magazines such as Vanity
Fair and Traveler, and other publications. |
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