LADIES TAILOR BY PRIYA HAJELA
BOOK NAME: LADIES' TAILOR NAME OF THE AUTHOR: PRIYA HAJELA GENRE: LITERARY AND CONTEMPORARY FICTION PUBLISHER: HARPERCOLLINS INDIA BOOK BUY LINK : Amazon India This was my next partition based fiction that I read for the month of august. This book was more about the after effects of partition which put people under immense emotional turbulence. The book beautifully paints a picture of a post partition India and Pakistan which led to the start of a communal and ethnic calamity on either sides of the border. Partition might mean various things to various people in politics but what was it like for a common man, a man who wanted to just run his business and make a living or a lady waiting for her husband and children to return home or for the elderly couple who built that beautiful house with all their life savings or for the kids who just wanted to be at school next day?! This book will precisely give you an insight about it. Gurudev is leaving to Delhi from Lahore...