Description
Unforgettable. --Boston Globe
As India is rent into two nations with the creation of Pakistan, 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 Kenshav, twin Hindu boys, lose sight of their mother and go in search of her. A young Sikh girl, Simran Kaur, has run away from her father who would rather poison her than see her defiled. And Ibrahim Masud, an elderly Muslim doctor, limps toward the new Muslim state of Pakistan, rediscovering on the way his role as a healer. A dramatic, luminous story of families and nations broken and formed, Partitions, written with piercing beauty, alive with moral passion and sorrowful insight, is] a rueful masterpiece (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Author: Amit Majmudar
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 07/03/2012
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781250007629
ISBN10: 1250007623
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
About the Author
Amit Majmudar is a diagnostic nuclear radiologist and an award-winning poet whose work has been featured in The Best American Poetry 2007. His first poetry collection, 0°, 0°, was published in 2009, and a novella, Azazel, was serialized in The Kenyon Review. Partitions is his first full-length novel. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.
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