The moving story of a Kashmiri boy soldier, from a prize-winning
Irish author. It's an ordinary morning at nine-year-old Rafiq's
school in rural Kashmir when the silence of dawn prayers is ripped
apart by gunfire. Soldiers of the Kashmir Freedom Fighters have
raided the village in search of new recruits - they scrawl a line
in chalk across the schoolroom wall, and any boy whose height
reaches the line will be taken to fight. Rafiq is tall for his age
- the first boy to cross the chalkline into a life of brutality and
terrorism. This is the story of Rafiq's transformation from child
to boy soldier, as he is indoctrinated into the cause of fanatical
belief. But his family have not forgotten him; when he can no
longer recognize himself, they remember the boy he was, and reach
out a hand of redemption as he spirals towards a final act of
atrocity.
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