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Best books to read after Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh

If Khushwant Singh's Partition novel moved you, these picks span the literary landscape of the 1947 Partition, Indian fiction of independence and its aftermath, and other novels of communities destroyed by historical violence.

  1. 1

    Midnight's Children

    by Salman Rushdie

    The Booker-winning magical realist epic of independence — the birth of India and Pakistan at the same moment, from a very different angle.

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  2. 2

    Ice Candy Man

    by Bapsi Sidhwa

    The Partition from a child's perspective in Lahore — also published as Cracking India, essential reading alongside Train to Pakistan.

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  3. 3

    A Suitable Boy

    by Vikram Seth

    The India of 1951 — the aftermath of Partition, the new nation finding its feet, in Seth's vast and warm panorama.

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  4. 4

    The God of Small Things

    by Arundhati Roy

    Roy's Kerala novel — the same post-independence India from the south, with different faultlines of caste and forbidden love.

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  5. 5

    A Fine Balance

    by Rohinton Mistry

    Four lives in 1975 India during the Emergency — the democratic promise of 1947 deferred and violated.

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  6. 6

    The Kite Runner

    by Khaled Hosseini

    Another novel of a country divided by violence along religious and ethnic lines — Afghanistan seen through the same humanistic lens.

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  7. 7

    Half of a Yellow Sun

    by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    The Nigerian civil war's civilian devastation — community destroyed by partition, the same human cost in a different country.

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  8. 8

    Weep Not, Child

    by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

    The Kenyan anti-colonial parallel — a community divided by the same forces of colonial withdrawal and communal violence.

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