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Partitions: A Novel - Hardcover By Majmudar, Amit - VERY GOOD
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- Type
- Novel
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780805093957
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805093958
ISBN-13
9780805093957
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99578059
Product Key Features
Book Title
Partitions
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Literary, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-045159
Reviews
"The superb fiction debut of Amit Majmudar, Partitions , is particularly welcome... This novel will make you angry and sad, as it should; it will also leave you with a heightened sense of sympathy and hope for the people on both sides of an arbitrary border." - The Wall Street Journal "Unforgettable." - The Boston Globe "Heart-wrenching." - New York Post "Shimmering prose... and a poignant surprise ending." - The Seattle Times "A dazzling narrative... Amit Majmudar's exceptional debut brilliantly captures India at its most turbulent." - Daily Mail (UK) "A greatly human dramatization of the persecution each religious group experienced at the hands of the others... Poignant but never maudlin." - Booklist (starred review) "Magnificent... Written with piercing beauty, alive with moral passion and sorrowful insight-a rueful masterpiece." - Kirkus (starred review) , "Magnificent... Written with piercing beauty, alive with moral passion and sorrowful insight-a rueful masterpiece." - Kirkus (starred review) "A greatly human dramatization of the persecution each religious group experienced at the hands of the others... Poignant but never maudlin." - Booklist (starred review) , "A greatly human dramatization of the persecution each religious group experienced at the hands of the others... Poignant but never maudlin." - Booklist (starred review) , "A superb fiction debut ... particularly welcome. This novel will make you angry and sad, as it should; it will also leave you with a heightened sense of sympathy and hope for all people on both sides of an arbitrary border." -The Wall Street Journal "Unforgettable." -The Boston Globe "Heart-wrenching." -New York Post "Shimmering prose... and a poignant surprise ending." -The Seattle Times "This first-time novelist has helped us to travel that brief but crucial distance, from words on the page to dreams in our minds and hearts, and made this bitter, brutal time somehow reachable." - NPR , All Things Considered "Eloquently shares its author's humane insights… A worldly meditation on the violence that occurs because of the necessary yet artificial partitions between individuals." -San Francisco Chronicle "A dazzling narrative... Amit Majmudar's exceptional debut brilliantly captures India at its most turbulent." -Daily Mail (UK) "A greatly human dramatization of the persecution each religious group experienced at the hands of the others... Poignant but never maudlin." -Booklist (starred review) "Magnificent... Written with piercing beauty, alive with moral passion and sorrowful insight-a rueful masterpiece." -Kirkus (starred review)
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
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. At an overrun train station, Shankar and Keshav, twin Hindu boys, lose sight of their mother and join the human mass to go in search of her. A young Sikh girl, Simran Kaur, has run away from her father, who would rather poison his daughter than see her defiled. And Ibrahim Masud, an elderly Muslim doctor driven from the town of his birth, limps toward the new Muslim state of Pakistan, rediscovering on the way his role as a healer. As the displaced face a variety of horrors, this unlikely quartet comes together, defying every rule of self-preservation to forge a future of hope. A dramatic, luminous story of families and nations broken and formed, Partitions introduces an extraordinary novelist who writes with the force and lyricism of poetry., A dramatic, luminous first novel of families and nations broken and formed, "Partitions" is set during the violent 1947 partition of India, and introduces an extraordinary novelist who writes with the force and lyricism of poetry.
LC Classification Number
PS3613.A3536P37 2011
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