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Train-to-Pakistan-by-Khushwant-Singh:“In-the-summer-of-1947,-when-the-creation-of-the-new-state-of-Pakistan-was-formally-announced,ten-million-people—Muslims-and-Hindus-and-Sikhs—were-in-flight,By-the-time-the-monsoon-broke,-almost-a-million-of-them-were-dead,and-all-of-northern-India-was-in-arms,-in-terror,-or-in-hiding.The-only-remaining-oases-of-peace-were-a-scatter-of-little-villages-lost-in-the-remote-reaches-of-the-frontier.-One-of-these-villages-was-Mano-Majra.”It-is-a-place,-Khushwant-Singh-goes-on-to-tell-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.Train-to-Pakistan-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.
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