The collected novels: Train to Pakistan, I shall not hear the nightingale, Delhi

by Khushwant Singh

This volume brings together all the novels, except The Company of Women, by India's most widely read and celebrated author. Included here are the classic Train to Pakistan that describes the tragedy of Partition through the love story of a Sikh dacoit and a Muslim girl; I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale, which deals with the conflict in a prosperous Sikh family of Punjab in the 1940s; and the best-selling Delhi , a vast, erotic, irreverent magnum opus centred on the Indian capital.

Genres: Fiction

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Khushwant Singh, (Punjabi: ਖ਼ੁਸ਼ਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ, Hindi: खुशवंत सिंह) born on 2 February 1915 in Hadali, Undivided India, (now a part of Pakistan), was a prominent Indian novelist and journalist. Singh's weekly column, "With Malice towards One and All", carried by several Indian newspapers, was among the most widely-read columns in the country.

An important post-colonial novelist writing in English, Singh is best known for his trenchant secularism, his humor, and an abiding love of poetry. His comparisons of social and behavioral characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit.

Reviews

[Richa gupta]

I still own this novel with me , its a collection of Khushwant Singh 's three novels, but the story that stole my heart away was "DELHI". it lifted me up from my modern life and threw me in the middle of "Mehrauli" some 300 years back. I lived there for as long as the book lasted....i enjoyed my stay in that DELHI.

[Amb · Rating 5 out of 5]

Train to Pakistan was such an emotional read, felt as if I was there

[Zen Walker · Rating 4 out of 5]

nice, saucy with bit of history
Author has narrated the partition struggle very well. first half of the book has a very good story on the partition time in border village.
second half consists of lots of short stories which includes Delhi life with boring history of Delhi. author has mixed few intimate stories which spice up the reading time.
overall very well written and interesting.

[Shashi]

took me a long time to get myself to read it, still trying to keep on.. reading... but once you start, it is thrilling, keep wondering why i took such a long time to read it

[Hadia · Rating 3 out of 5]

he is one of my fav,,, will read anything he writes

[Venky]

All vintage Khushwant Singh. Some (particularly Delhi) sounds autobiographical. The historical background to his fiction has been nicely interwoven into the Novels.

[Harish P · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn't locate "Train to Pakistan" on Goodreads, hence commenting on this collection.

It is an incredible piece of storytelling.

[Jaseena AL · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating : 4 stars