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A Game of Fire
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| Author:
Nanak Singh (tr. Navdeep Suri)
| Language:
English
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Author:
Nanak Singh (tr. Navdeep Suri)
Language:
English
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Nanak Singh is widely regarded as the father of the Punjabi novel.
Despite little formal education beyond the fourth grade, he wrote an astounding fifty-nine books, which included thirty-eight novels and an assortment of plays, short stories, poems, essays, and even a set of translations. He received the Sahitya
Akademi Award in 1962 for Ik Mian Do Talwaraan. His novel Pavitra Paapi was made into a film in 1968, while Chitta Lahu was translated into the Russian by Natasha Tolstoy.
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Nanak Singh is widely regarded as the father of the Punjabi novel.
Despite little formal education beyond the fourth grade, he wrote an astounding fifty-nine books, which included thirty-eight novels and an assortment of plays, short stories, poems, essays, and even a set of translations. He received the Sahitya
Akademi Award in 1962 for Ik Mian Do Talwaraan. His novel Pavitra Paapi was made into a film in 1968, while Chitta Lahu was translated into the Russian by Natasha Tolstoy.
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1947. Amritsar. Guru Ram Das Serai near the Golden Temple has become a temporary
refuge for Hindu and Sikh families fleeing the communal terror and bloodbath of
Partition. One of the legions of volunteers providing succour to the new arrivals is
Satnam Singh, the leader of the local Unity Council. He is struck by the extraordinary
calm of an erudite-looking old man with a long flowing beard, and his companion, a
resolute young woman, whose eyes seem haunted by the tragedies they have
witnessed.
Taking the story of the Partition forward from Hymns in Blood, A Game of Fire follows
Satnam as he observes the rising tide of communal violence threaten his beloved
Amritsar. His own friends abandon their beliefs to join the relentless cycle of revenge
and retribution, determined to purge the city of its large Muslim population. Even as he
shelters the elderly man and the young woman in his own home, his faith in placing
humanity before religion is severely tested and he oscillates between steadfastness and
deep despair. Against the backdrop of emerging fissures in a new country and its
people, A Game of Fire paints the picture of a city in turmoil and the unexpected
heroes who rise from this catastrophe, its message as relevant today as it was when it
was first published in 1948.
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