Where the River Parts
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1910124761
ISBN-13
9781910124765
Publisher
Sandstone Press Ltd
Imprint
Sandstone Press Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 18th, 2016
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
300 grams
Dimensions
13.10 x 19.80 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Historical fiction
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In the final days of the British Raj a young Hindu woman, Asha, is deeply in love with Firoze, a Muslim, but with Partition she and her family must flee. In 1998, the newly widowed Asha travels to New York to visit her granddaughter, who is to marry a Pakistani Muslim called Hussain and learns that his grand-uncle is Firoze.
In the final days of the British Raj a young Hindu woman, Asha, finds herself deeply in love with Firoze, a Muslim, but when Asha and Firoze''s newly independent nation is brutally cleaved into India and Pakistan Asha and her family must flee. She loses her father, mother and brother, as well as the secret baby she carries in her womb, arriving in a Delhi of cramped, diseased refugee camps. In 1998, as India and Pakistan race to join the nuclear club, a newly widowed Asha travels to New York to visit her daughter Priya and her granddaughter Lana, who is to marry a Pakistani Muslim called Hussain. When Asha meets Hussain, she discovers his grand-uncle is Firoze. Will they put family before self, or choose a love that might destroy all they have so painstakingly created?
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