Title: A beautiful lie
Description: In the days leading up to the partition of India in 1947, thirteen-year-old Bilal devises an elaborate scheme to keep his dying father from hearing the news about the country's division.
Subjects: Terminally ill, Honesty, Juvenile fiction, History, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Children's fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, Honesty, fiction, Mentally ill, fiction, India, fiction, Pakistan, fiction, Young adult fiction, Friendship, fiction, Muslims, fiction
Places: Pakistan, India
Time periods: 20th century, Partition, 1947