About the Book: Train to Pakistan
Mano Majra is a place, Khushwant Singh tells us at the beginning of this classic
novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of
years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the ghost train arrives, a
silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refuges,
bringing the village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war. Train to
Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of
religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl