TRAIN TO PAKISTAN
PKR: 995/-
Author: KHUSHWANT SINGH
Pages: 260
Year: 2016
ISBN: 9780199403448
Categories: NOVEL ENGLISH
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
‘THE FACT IS, BOTH SIDES KILLED. BOTH SHOT AND STABBED AND SPEARED AND CLUBBED. BOTH TORTURED. BOTH RAPED.’
It is the summer of 1947. But Partition does not mean much to the Sikhs and Muslims of Mano Majra, a village on the border of India and Pakistan. Then, a local money lender is murdered, and suspicion falls upon Juggut Singh, the village gangster who is in love with a Muslim girl. When a train arrives, carrying the bodies of dead Sikhs, the village is transformed into a battlefield, and neither the magistrate nor the police are able to stem the rising tide of violence. Amidst conflicting loyalties, it is left to Juggut Singh to redeem himself and reclaim peace for his villa.
AUTHOR DESCRIPTION
Khushwant Singh is India’s best-known writer and columnist. He has been founder-editor of Yojana and editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and the Hindustan Times. He is the author of classics such as Train to Pakistan, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale, and Delhi. His latest novel, The Sunset Club, was written in 2010 when he was 95. His non-fiction includes the classic two-volume A History of the Sikhs, a number of translations and works on Sikh religion and culture, Delhi, nature, current affairs, and Urdu poetry. His autobiography, Truth, Love and a Little Malice, was published in 2002.
Khushwant Singh was a member of Parliament from 1980 to 1986. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 but returned the decoration in 1984 in protest against the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar by the Indian Army. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan.
Singh has received honorary doctorates from several universities. He passed away in 2014 at the age of 99.
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