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Metropolitan Books
July 2011
On Sale: June 21, 2011
224 pages
ISBN: 0805093958
EAN: 9780805093957
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Fiction Family Life
A stunning first novel, set during the violent 1947
partition of India, about uprooted children and their
journeys to safety As India is rent into two nations, communal violence breaks
out on both sides of the new border and streaming hordes of
refugees flee from blood and chaos. At an overrun train station, Shankar and Keshav, twin Hindu
boys, lose sight of their mother and join the human mass to
go in search of her. A young Sikh girl, Simran Kaur, has run
away from her father, who would rather poison his daughter
than see her defiled. And Ibrahim Masud, an elderly Muslim
doctor driven from the town of his birth, limps toward the
new Muslim state of Pakistan, rediscovering on the way his
role as a healer. As the displaced face a variety of
horrors, this unlikely quartet comes together, defying every
rule of self-preservation to forge a future of hope. A dramatic, luminous story of families and nations broken
and formed, Partitions introduces an extraordinary novelist
who writes with the force and lyricism of poetry.
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