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Bhowani Junction
John Masters
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Description for Bhowani Junction
Paperback. Series: Story-Tellers S. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 27. Weight in Grams: 338.
Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their place in the new India that is emerging. In the last hectic days of the British Raj, Victoria has to choose between marrying a British Army officer or a Sikh, Ranjit, as she struggles to find her place in the new, independent India. One of John Masters' seven novels which followed several generations of the Savage family serving ... Read more
Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their place in the new India that is emerging. In the last hectic days of the British Raj, Victoria has to choose between marrying a British Army officer or a Sikh, Ranjit, as she struggles to find her place in the new, independent India. One of John Masters' seven novels which followed several generations of the Savage family serving ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Souvenir Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Series
Story-Tellers S.
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780285636040
SKU
V9780285636040
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About John Masters
John Masters was a British novelist and regular officer of the Indian Army. He wrote several novels set in India, the most famous of which, Bhowani Junction, was turned into a successful film starring Ava Gardner. He died in 1983.
Reviews for Bhowani Junction
Very impressive.... He organizes and controls the swift-moving, exciting narrative with the unobtrusive brilliance of a first-class military strategist.
Observer
The realities of fading British influence in India recounted in Bhowani Junction... the classic John Master's novel.
Birmingham Post
One of the most unjustly neglected writers... a remarkable and accurate picture of the Empire and its ... Read more
Observer
The realities of fading British influence in India recounted in Bhowani Junction... the classic John Master's novel.
Birmingham Post
One of the most unjustly neglected writers... a remarkable and accurate picture of the Empire and its ... Read more