Khushwant Singh

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It is the summer of 1947. The partition of Pakistan from India has just taken place: ten million people are in flight, almost a million dead. An uneasy peace reigns over the small Indian frontier village of Mano Majra. Then one day 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 nightmare - the killings, flamings, rapings and pillagings. This Punjabi village, where Hindus and Muslims have lived ttogether in peace for hundreds of years, is plunged into war of religious strife. A powerful and moving account of India's partition, Train to Pakistan is also the lovely story of a Sikh boy and Muslim girl that bridges the age-old obyss of religious hate.

k.A.