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01820aam a2200313Ia 4500 001 75009D5AAE3711E2ADF40BD6DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20190815012642 008 111103s2011 nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1250007623 (pbk.) : 020 $a 9781250007629 (pbk.) : 035 $a (OCoLC)759914119 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d CXP $d SILO 100 1 $a Majmudar, Amit. 245 10 $a Partitions : $b a novel / $c Amit Majmudar. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b Picador, $c c2011. 300 $a xii, 211 p. ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a 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. 651 0 $a India $x History $y Partition, 1947 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Political refugees $v Fiction. 651 0 $a India $x Emigration and immigration $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Pakistan $x Emigration and immigration $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Pakistan $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 941 $a 3 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204050927.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110033027.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418100318.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=75009D5AAE3711E2ADF40BD6DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search