Train to Pakistan

by Khushwant Singh

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It is a place, [the author] tell[s] us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, 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 horrors of the civil war. [This] is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Si…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Train to Pakistan / Khushwant Singh ; with an introduction by Arthur Lall.

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It is a place, [the author] tell[s] us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, 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 horrors of the civil war. [This] is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endures and transcends the ravages of war.-Back cover

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2007.

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Notes

Originally published: New York : Grove Press, ©1990.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 audio disc ; : 4 3/4 in.

Edition Identifiers

  • oclc:ocn180771881
  • Dewey Decimal:823

Subjects

Fiction History India -- Punjab Pendjab (Inde) -- Romans, nouvelles, et… Punjab (India) -- Fiction. -- History -…

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Khushwant Singh

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