Srinagar, Dec. 3 -- Umair Ahmed Khan's 'The Valley of Unfinished Songs' (Rupa Publications) is a breath after years of having it. It is a very intimate examination and a collective account of broken memories of Kashmir. The book is written very close and almost movie-like and switches between the generations, places and voices and connects the sensation of missing a person, sadness and power to continue. In fact, the history of the novel is one of hearing, or listening to the houses that are crumbling, yet still breathing like old tales, to rivers that will carry you through time, to children who laugh in a new way, to a country that is singing, even when it has not gone up to high. Traditions and Recollections The concept of the story is...