'Light Across the Plains is a tale of boundaries and borders and frontiers and walls, and of the necessity of crossing them, if not breaking them down. In a story that runs from Punjab to Birmingham to Brighton to Berlin, from the 1940s to the late 1980s ... an epic that stays intimate while also forming a shadow history of the second half of the 20th century.'- CD Rose
When Simran dies in 1989, Lekha, adrift and unfulfilled, travels to Berlin to settle her estranged aunt's affairs. Swept up in a city in flux, a brief, practical journey soon unravels as an excavation of memory, longing, and forces that shape lives across time and place. Yet Simran's story is incomplete, at least until Prushna comes into view, her quiet audacity illuminating the hidden history of a family marked by Partition, upheaval and exile.
Spanning decades and continents, Light Across the Plains traces the inextricable links between three generations of a family as they push against the confines of the times they live in and cling to the choices they make.
Genre: Literary Fiction
When Simran dies in 1989, Lekha, adrift and unfulfilled, travels to Berlin to settle her estranged aunt's affairs. Swept up in a city in flux, a brief, practical journey soon unravels as an excavation of memory, longing, and forces that shape lives across time and place. Yet Simran's story is incomplete, at least until Prushna comes into view, her quiet audacity illuminating the hidden history of a family marked by Partition, upheaval and exile.
Spanning decades and continents, Light Across the Plains traces the inextricable links between three generations of a family as they push against the confines of the times they live in and cling to the choices they make.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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