The Heart Divided: A Novel
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
0143031430
Length
xi+451p.
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The Heart Divided is a pre-Partition saga centred on two sisters, Zohra and Sughra Jamaluddin, who quarrel over the merits of Congress and the Muslim League. Mirroring the author's own 'conversion' to the idea of a Muslim State, the novel weaves political events -- the 1938 League session in Patna, the Lahore Resolution -- into a series of love stories. With a breeziness ahead of its time, Mumtaz tweaks traditional marriage from four significant angles: the ...
