Teaser Tuesday #107

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Miz B of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along!

"How do you define misery?

How do you define sorrow?

What about horror?

Intimidation?

Subjugation?

How about unimaginable humiliation?

And systematic annihilation?

We are facing them all at once, and then some. Words almost fail me when I attempt to explain what we are going through." 

-Snakes in the Meadows by Ayaz Kohli 

Goodreads Summary: 

Jammu and Kashmir, 1987. In the hilly village of pathri Aali, where legends appear true, Aslam and ashwar, two young lovers, dream of marriage and of good things of life. But that is not to be. Unable to cope, Aslam leaves pathri Aali forever. Years later, as men migrate to Saudi Arabia for employment, pathri Aali is populated mostly by women and children. Soon they realize the mujahedeen, who guise themselves as their liberators, are the worst perpetrators, and misery seems inescapable. Ashwar refuses to be cowed down by this reign of terror and is determined not to let it devastate the once-peaceful village. The only one she can Bank on is aslam—and she calls out to him across the distance of time and space, to return and live up to the legends of their village. Snakes in the meadows is a saga of the onset of militancy, and the suffering and the resilience of pir panjal—the ‘and’ of Jammu and Kashmir.

These are the first lines of this book and I'm intrigued. 

What teaser have you shared this Tuesday?