Lahore : Book 1 of The Partition Trilogy

By Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

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About the book

In the months leading up to Independence, in Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel are engaged in deliberations with British Viceroy Dickie Mountbatten over the fate of the country. In Lahore, Sepoy Malik returns home from the Great War hoping to win his sweetheart Tara’s hand in marriage, only to find divide-and-rule holding sway, and love, friendships, and familial bonds being tested.

Set in parallel threads across these two cities, Lahore is a behind-the-scenes look into the negotiations and the political skulduggery that gave India its freedom, the price for which was batwara. As the men make the decisions and wield the swords, the women bear the brunt of the carnage that tears through India in the sticky hot months of its cruellest summer ever.

Backed by astute research, The Partition Trilogy captures the frenzy of Indian independence, the Partition and the accession of the states, and takes readers back to a time of great upheaval and churn.

Pages: 328

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

Manreet Sodhi Someshwar is a bestsellingauthor of nine books, including the award-winning The Radiance of a ThousandSuns and the critically acclaimed The Long Walk Home. Hailed as ‘astar on the literary horizon’ by Khushwant Singh and garnering endorsementsfrom Gulzar for two of her books, Manreet and her work have featured atnumerous literary festivals. Her articles have appeared in The New YorkTimes, the South China Morning Post, and several Indianpublications. Manreet lives in New York City with her husband, daughter andcat.

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As the men fought over religion and maps, the Partition heaped unspeakable atrocities on women. Manreet’s book is a faithful, unforgiving look at what was and also what shouldn’t have been. Lahore is breathtaking in scope, painful yet gentle to the touch. - Taslima Nasreen, author of Lajja

Vivid and atmospheric. By deftly weaving the personal and the political, Manreet Sodhi Someshwar transports us to the uncertain months leading up to the tragedy of Partition. - Aanchal Malhotra, author of Remnants of a Separation

A timely reminder of what differences and divisions can do … An engaging read that tries to humanize the politics of the Partition. Current, relevant and important. This is a voice which makes you question, rethink and reimagine the past as the future and the future as the past. A voice to pay attention to in these times of rising intolerance and right-wing extremism. A voice of reason and reckoning. - Sabyn Javeri, author of Hijabistan

Tension pervades this first part of Manreet Sodhi Someshwar’s Partition trilogy. It wafts through the corridors of power, penetrates bonds between friends and lovers, and befouls the earth itself. Without releasing the reader from its ominous undercurrent, Manreet deftly weaves the big strands of history with the finer threads of human feeling, reminding us of a calamity that tore apart not just nations and states but also the heart and spirit of a people. - Manu S. Pillai, author of The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore