by Kiran Nagarkar · HarperCollins Publishers India · tapa dura · ISBN 9788172236335
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«God's Little Soldier» is the literary fiction novel by Kiran Nagarkar, published by HarperCollins Publishers India in hardcover (624 pages, in English).
Zia Khan, a young Muslim from Bombay, is torn between his aunt's faith and his parents' tolerance. In Cambridge, his orthodoxy leads him to a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. His brother Amanat, a sickly writer, chooses the moderate path. The novel explores faith, guilt, betrayal, and the conflicts that tear apart individuals and nations.
Published in 2006, the action takes the protagonist from Bombay to Cambridge, Afghanistan, and a monastery in California.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in the contradictions of faith and religious fanaticism.
Kiran Nagarkar was an Indian novelist, playwright and screenwriter. A noted drama and film critic, he was one of the most significant writers of post-colonial India.
