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COLLATERAL DAMAGE
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Expected 13 Feb 26
Collateral Damage
In a quiet village shaped by dust, routine, and endurance, a mother and father build their days around their young son.
Life is measured in bread shared, shoes tied too tightly, lessons practiced on slates and in courtyards. Tomorrow is something they prepare for carefully, one small act at a time.
When the father sets out on a long journey to bring home simple gifts for his child, the household continues in his absence. Days pass. Work is done. The return is imagined.
Love takes the form of patience.
Hope lives in ordinary things.
Collateral Damage follows one family as they live, dream, and plan for the future, unaware of how fragile that future truly is.
Told in spare, lyrical prose, the novel bears witness to lives lived far from power, headlines, and decisions, and to the human cost when those lives are altered without warning.
For readers of Khaled Hosseini, Cormac McCarthy, and Jhumpa Lahiri, Collateral Damage is a devastating and compassionate exploration of parenthood, love, and the quiet moments that shape a life before everything changes.
In a quiet village shaped by dust, routine, and endurance, a mother and father build their days around their young son.
Life is measured in bread shared, shoes tied too tightly, lessons practiced on slates and in courtyards. Tomorrow is something they prepare for carefully, one small act at a time.
When the father sets out on a long journey to bring home simple gifts for his child, the household continues in his absence. Days pass. Work is done. The return is imagined.
Love takes the form of patience.
Hope lives in ordinary things.
Collateral Damage follows one family as they live, dream, and plan for the future, unaware of how fragile that future truly is.
Told in spare, lyrical prose, the novel bears witness to lives lived far from power, headlines, and decisions, and to the human cost when those lives are altered without warning.
For readers of Khaled Hosseini, Cormac McCarthy, and Jhumpa Lahiri, Collateral Damage is a devastating and compassionate exploration of parenthood, love, and the quiet moments that shape a life before everything changes.
153 pages, Kindle Edition
Expected publication February 13, 2026
About the author
Dilaware Khan
11 books2 followersDilaware Khan writes stories that live in silence, the kind that lingers in empty rooms and unanswered questions. His work explores the minds of people standing at the edge of sanity, of faith, of meaning. With quiet intensity, he captures the inner storms of those who cannot conform to the noise of the world.
Blending philosophy, emotion, and lyric minimalism, Khan’s fiction examines how language shapes truth, how memory resists erasure, and how conscience survives under control.
His prose is meditative yet sharp, driven by moral inquiry and the haunting beauty of thought. Khan’s writing does not offer comfort; it invites reflection. His characters do not seek escape, they seek understanding.
For readers drawn to the quiet rebellion of the human mind, his stories are not simply read, they are experienced.
Blending philosophy, emotion, and lyric minimalism, Khan’s fiction examines how language shapes truth, how memory resists erasure, and how conscience survives under control.
His prose is meditative yet sharp, driven by moral inquiry and the haunting beauty of thought. Khan’s writing does not offer comfort; it invites reflection. His characters do not seek escape, they seek understanding.
For readers drawn to the quiet rebellion of the human mind, his stories are not simply read, they are experienced.
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