Train to Pakistan

Description

“In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people—Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs—were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. The only remaining oases of peace were a scatter of little villages lost in the remote reaches of the frontier. One of these villages was Mano Majra.” 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 refugees, 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 endured and transcends the ravages of war.

First Sentence

The summer of 1947 was not like other Indian summers.

Subjects

Other Editions

• Train to PakistanPaperbackGrove Press1994-02-11
• train to Pakistanchatto and windus1956-01-01
• Train to PakistanChatto & Windus1956-01-01
• train to pakistanpenguin india1965-01-01
• train to pakistanpenguin india1965-01-01
• train to pakistanpenguin india1965-01-01