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Train to Pakistan

By: Khushwant Singh
Narrated by: Paul Thottam
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Mano Majra is a place, Khushwant Singh tells us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the "ghost train" arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refuges, bringing the village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war. Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endures and transcends the ravages of war.

©1956, 2018 Khushwant Singh (P)2018 Random House Audio Historical Fiction World Literature Fiction War Pakistan Transportation Village Pakistan Fiction

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I read the book many years ago and remembered enjoying it. The story was still very interesting but the narration so poor that several times I almost abandoned the book. The accent , possibly trying to be Indian, was irritating as was the dull monotonous reading.

Awful narration

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Not a fan of the narration , had to switch to the physical book halfway through!
But the story was brilliant and very realistic and eye-opening

Searing story but poor narration

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Narration a bit flat. Story enjoyable - I cannot really recommend it. It felt too simplistic for me but I enjoyed it.

Good story, not so well narrated

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The performance of this novel made it painful to get through. I am sure there is a great book in there but struggled to finish.

Not the best

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Train to Pakistan is a brilliantly realised story of a small village on the Pakistan Indian border right after partition. It speaks of the dignity, grace, tolerance of the Sikh Hindu and Muslim communities, then torn apart by sectarian violence, to which the village’s lonely train station bears witness.

Unfortunately the narrator cannot cope with the inflections and pronunciations of this English version. His voice is beautiful, but his understanding of the cadence of English I’m afraid is unforgivable: the narration is full of sentences that seem to stop halfway and start again, and extraordinary mispronunciations of e.g. ‘mangey’

I will however always love his pronunciations of Indian words such as Char Pie (?sp)

Extraordinary story sadly undermined by terrible narration

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