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We approach books with many different attitudes. Sometimes we just want entertainment, something to pleasantly pass the time. Sometimes we're searching beauty and lyricism (or dare we call it "romance"). Sometimes we want to be excited or angered or made to think. Sometimes we want, even expect, all of the above.
It was with hopes too high that I approached ''The Collaborator''. [[:Category:Arundhati Roy|Arundhati Roy]] spoke of its ''flashes of brilliance, tenderness and fury''. [[:CatgoryCategory:Nadeem Aslam|Nadeem Aslam]] told of a voice ''lyrical, to match the beauty of Kahsmir…tinged with melancholy and grief.''
As someone awestruck by the beauty of the region and angered by its politics, I wanted to love this book. I wanted it to be something I would signpost people to, buy for them, make them read.
