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Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2012

"Unforgettable." --Boston Globe

As India is rent into two nations with the creation of Pakistan, 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 Kenshav, twin Hindu boys, lose sight of their mother and go in search of her. A young Sikh girl, Simran Kaur, has run away from her father who would rather poison her than see her defiled. And Ibrahim Masud, an elderly Muslim doctor, limps toward the new Muslim state of Pakistan, rediscovering on the way his role as a healer. A dramatic, luminous story of families and nations broken and formed, Partitions, "written with piercing beauty, alive with moral passion and sorrowful insight, [is] a rueful masterpiece" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

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"Unforgettable." --Boston Globe

As India is rent into two nations with the creation of Pakistan, communal violence breaks out on both sides of the new border and streaming hordes of refugees flee from blood and chaos.

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Taschenbuch: 211 Seiten
Verlag: Picador; Auflage: Reprint (3. Juli 2012)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1250007623
ISBN-13: 978-1250007629
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 21 x 14 x 1,9 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 207.979 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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“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)

Über den Autor

Amit Majmudar is a diagnostic nuclear radiologist and an award-winning poet whose work has been featured in The Best American Poetry 2007. His first poetry collection, 0°, 0°, was published in 2009, and a novella, Azazel, was serialized in The Kenyon Review. Partitions is his first full-length novel. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Moving 10. Juni 2012

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A very moving story. It unfolds the secrets very slowly and it is a joy and agony to follow the protagonists through India and then Pakistan. The way the story is told by the ghost of the twin's father is very unique and different. It makes it even more touching because like the ghost the reader is damned to sit, see and watch, powerless and voiceless.

I never really wondered what happend as Pakistan got it's indipendence, and this book made me look closer to this part of Indien history. Terrible things happened without the world's notice.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Partitions 10. Mai 2012

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An excellent, moving novel whose characters all spring to life from the very first to the very last page. I could see them all and the landscapes vividly, as well as feel that I was actually travelling along the road with them. This wonderful book gives true insight into the human condition as well as informing and reminding the reader of this tragic period in our not-so-distant history; exceptionally well-written!

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My grandmother used to tell me stories about the partition, about how they left their homeland Pakistan and were evicted to India in August 1947. I used to hear these stories with enthrallment, not knowing the hardships she and my grandfather went through to build a new life. How could I have known? I was but a child at that time. However, as I grew up, I started being more perceptive of the event and it made me see things differently - keeping in mind both countries - India and Pakistan and what its citizens experienced when partition was announced.

A lot of writers have written about the Partition - from Salman Rushdie to Bhisham Sahni to Khushwant Singh and each one of them have depicted the state of affairs in a different way. Amidst these stalwarts, comes a new book entitled, Partitions by Amit Majmudar.

I had the opportunity of reading this vividly written book and I must say that I was mesmerized by the prose.

Partitions centers around four individuals from both sides of the border and how their lives converge throughout the book. Shankar and Keshav, two Hindu Boys, have lost sight of their mother at a train station and don't know where they belong or where to go to. Simran Kaur, a young Sikh girl, has run away from her father, who would rather see her dead than dishonored. Ibrahim Masud, an elderly Muslim doctor is driven away from India towards the new Muslim State of Pakistan.

The book is about the meeting of these four characters and how they come together ironically enough, defying every political thought and viewpoint. The writing is lyrical - it is almost like the sentences dance on the page and you are transported to another time and place. The main theme of the book, hope, comes across strongly and evokes a sense of belonging and what does it take for a bond to form amongst strangers.

I would highly recommend this book because of its plot, the heart-felt writing and the possibilities that exist in our world and are brilliantly portrayed by writers such as Mr. Majmudar through the medium of writing.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Do not pass GO, a must-read 27. Juni 2011

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Dr. Majmudar is, foremost, a poet. This is his first novel, though I sincerely hope there will be more. I have been privileged to experience much of his poetry, published and private, and found him equally capable of gut-wrenching emotion, childlike curiosity, and very clever wordplay.
He knows his history and culture intimately, and most importantly, he can tell a story.

This all comes together seamlessly in Partitions, which might be described as both a historical novel and a ghost story. It favorably brings to mind "Cutting for Stone", by Abraham Verghese, also a physician with something to say.

I read Partitions in a single setting; I was carried off into this tender nightmare and was held spellbound to the last page.

James Rudick, MD

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5.0 von 5 Sternen A gem of a book 6. Februar 2012

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This is a remarkable book about one of the horrifying realities of human conflicts in the 20th century, but written in clear prose with a poetic flow. Set in 1947 at the Punjabi border of India and the newly declared Pakistan (west), the title is both literal and metaphorical. I think this book may join other western classics about 20th century India, such as the quite different "A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry, "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie, and the "Jewel in the Crown" by Paul Scott. I easily tuned in to the voice of the ghost narrator, which I could easily have tuned out from the hand of a lesser writer. I hope Amit Majmudar will tell us more stories. When (not if) someone makes a movie of this, I sincerely hope they do justice to this gem of a novel.

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