Review: Where the River Parts

Where the River Parts by Radhika Swarup
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

[Note: I won this book in Goodreads GiveAway and this is my honest review of the book]

The book is about Asha who had to migrate to India post partition of Indian subcontinent in 1947.

Asha, a Hindu girl and teenager, lives in a small village called Suhanpur in today's Pakistan. she has affair with a Muslim boy Feroze, who is also her best friend's brother. when partition of India is declared, the house of Asha is attacked and destroyed. Asha and her family take refuge in her friend Nargis' house. and then finally Asha's father decides to move to Delhi and they start their journey.. But during this journey Asha's whole family is killed by the Muslim Zealots but she is saved by a Muslim family. she manages to move to Delhi and gets married as well.

Till now, the story is pacy and kept me engrossed but after this it starts dragging, specially Part II of the book. by the way the book has total IV parts and Part IV has only one chapter. from chapter III onward it starts to pick the pace again and ends up nicely.

I wish that, Asha should have given some better reasons to convince Priya to agree to the marriage of Lana and Hussain. and, probably could have been told about her real mother.

Despite it's slow pace I liked the story of the book and I rate it 3.5/5.









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