Category:
Railway Events
ISBN Number:
81 7436 444 7
Blurb of Book:
"The fact is, both sides killed. Both shot and stabbed and speared and clubbed. Both tortured. Both raped. By the summer of 1947 ... ten million people--Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs were in flight. Almost a million of them were dead.
Name of Publisher:
Roli Books (Lotus Collection)
Edition of the Book:
First in this edition. First published 1956
Print Year:
2006
Print Location:
New Delhi, India
Where to buy:
Books Stores selling Roli Books and on the internet
"In train to Pakistan, truth meets fiction with stunning impact, as Kushwant singh recounts the trauma and tragedy of Partition through the stories of his characters--stories that he, his family and friends themselves experienced or saw enacted before their eyes. ..........in the tiny village of Mano Majra, sikhs and muslims continue to live peacefully, their lives regulated bythe trains that rattle across the river bridge. Until a train comes to an unscheduled stop, and the villagers discover it is full of dead sikhs"