This unique illustrated edition of a novel first published soon after India’s independence includes previously unpublished pictures by internationally acclaimed photographer Margaret Bourke-White.

In the summer of 1947, the frontier between India and its newly-created neighbour, Pakistan, had become a river of blood, as the post-Partition exodus across the border erupted into violent rioting. In Train to Pakistan, truth meets fiction with stunning impact, as Khushwant Singh recounts the trauma and tragedy of Partition through the stories of his characters’ stories that he, his family and friends themselves experienced or saw enacted before their eyes. Sixty years later, in an age where these tensions still lie close to the surface, Bourk-White’s photographs of the Partition illustrate Khushwant Singh’s prose with a stark and almost unbearably heart-rending subtext.