Tren a Pakistán - Khushwant Singh

Editorial: Libros del Asteroide/ 2012/ ISBN: 9788492663347/ 248 paginas/ español

Set in 1947, when the territories of Hindustan obtained their independence from Great Britain, this novel recounts the consequences of the division of continental India into the two countries of India and Pakistan. Religious hatred runs rampant in both countries, and when the local moneylender is murdered in a northern Indian town close to the Pakistani border, everyone suspects a well-known Sikh thief who is in love with a Muslim. The gossip that leads to the crime, the arrival of a train full of dead bodies, and rumors of uprisings in other parts of the country prevent further peaceful coexistence in the town. This modern Indian classic, published for the first time in 1956, demonstrates how easy it is to incite hatred and disrupt the p… (cont.)