Mirza Waheed was born and brought up in Kashmir. His debut novel, The Collaborator, was an international bestseller, a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award and the Shakti Bhatt Prize, and long listed for the Desmond Elliot Prize. It was also a Book of the Year for The Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Financial Times, Business Standard and The Telegraph (India), among others.
A BuzzFeed Most Anticipated Thriller of 2023 Tell Her Everything is a layered recital of intricately woven hauntings, decisions, and confessions...[A] story that is at once haunting, tender, and gripping. - Chicago Review of Books A psychological thriller in the form of a memoir, if the memoir was written by either Dr. Frankenstein or Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde... - BuzzFeed The heart is there... -Publishers Weekly An eloquent and powerful testament to the fragility of our moral codes-and especially resonant at a time when those codes are being violated like never before. - Pankaj Mishra, author of The Age of Anger It's really quite extraordinary. The story of how small men become party to huge crimes is so important. This is a powerful, profound and important novel. One that has really sunk into my imagination in a way that too little does these days. - Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire The horror and beauty of Tell Her Everything, essentially deals with the moral choices a person makes in modern times. It's a story... addressed to the reader, making him/her an intimate participant. - THE TRIBUNE INDIA Mirza Waheed speaks of a blunt, ubiquitous truth: society's quest for global dominion and its inevitable trajectory towards the immoral and corrupt in pursuit of the said goal... What appears to be the story of a strained father-daughter relationship also depicts at a more fundamental level the 'moral exhaustion' of one man, father, husband and doctor who discovers just how much he has corrupted his soul in chasing after his ambitions. - FIRSTPOST