Partition Dialogues: Memories of a Lost Home

by Alok Bhalla

Book Overview

This volume is a collection of interviews with notable writers who have lived through the Partition and have represented it in their fiction. Writers like Bhisham Sahni, Krishna Sobti, Kamleshwar, Krishna Baldev Vaid, Bapsi Sidhwa, and Intizar Husain present a host of insights not always included in their work. Bhalla extensive introduction introduces the idea of home and freedom, and how the two are interlinked.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195677420
• ISBN13: 9780195677423
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 258 Pages