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“I always loved her and she always loved me, but before she came to me she’d slept with countless men. However, it wasn’t what we both wanted.”
Jay and Dilip, two young children from the East Pakistan in 1958 find themselves helpless when they get suspended from their school and no other school agrees to let them in. When the real reason comes out behind their suspension they realize that it was the start of chaos in their life.
They get admission in a public school and sigh a breath of relief in an illusion that everything is fine now. But all the delusions come to an end once the ghost of their childhood reappears in front of them in 1964 and creates unimaginable mayhem in their life.
Living under the rising communalism and ultra-nationalism they move ahead in their life and somehow they manage to save a part of their childhood if not all of it. And fighting against all the odds Jay convinced his parents to allow him to marry a Muslim girl. But before the young couple’s dream could come to be true, in 1971 the Pakistani army started a military crackdown on the people of their own country in the East Pakitan, and now the two boys’ priority is to save their family.
Will they be able to save his family? If yes, what would be the cost of their survival? Will he able to get married to his love?
Based on one of the most gruesome history event as the story of innocence and maturity, love and hate, planned love and real love, confusion and certainty, survival and annihilation, regret and contentment, and life and death unfolds it reveals some real heartbreaking incidents which were never told, or say, failed to get attention for they belong to The Other Class Of Human Beings.
Editor’s note – “An intriguing yet tragic representation of one of the most horrendous incidents of history that changed lives of millions of people, nevertheless, remained untold for the decades. Breathtaking!”
Swastik Saraswat’s debut novel is in addition to the great novels like The kite runner, The other Boleyn girl, A tale of two cities, All the lights we can not see, The three musketeers and the likes.
