Partitions
By: Amit Majmudar
Publisher: OneWorld
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781851688319; 9781851688326
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Fiction; Political refugees; History
Description: 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.