Train to Pakistan - Softcover

SINGH, Khushwant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802150233 ISBN 13: 9780802150233

Publisher: Grove Press, 1990

Synopsis

Khushwant Singh, one of India's most widely read and celebrated AUTHORs, makes his readers share the individual problems of loyalty and responsibility faced by the principal figures in a little village on the frontier between India and Pakistan where the action takes place. In the summer of 1947, a train full of dead Sikhs stirs up a battlefield in the peaceful atmosphere of love and loyalty between the Muslims and the Sikhs. It is then left to Juggat Singh-the village gangster who is in love with a Muslim girl- to redeem himself by saving many Muslim lives in a stirring climax.

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From the Back Cover

It is a place, Khushwant Singh goes on to tell us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the 'ghost train' arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refuges, bringing the village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war. Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endures and transcends the ravages of war.

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ngh /f Khushwant

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0802150233
• ISBN 13: 9780802150233
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English