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India, August 1947: Fleeing from their burnt-out village as civil war rages in the Punjab, Marvinder and Jaspal are separated from their mother, Jhoti. Marvinder has already saved her brother's life once, but now they both face a daily fight for survival.

Together they escape across India and nearly halfway around the world to England, to find a father they hardly know in a new, hostile culture...

This book was runner-up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award.

The Eye of the Horse

Jamila Gavin
Mammoth Books, 1997 (first published in 1994)
Paperback. 250pp £4.99
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India, 1948: 'The light has gone out of our world.' Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated. and in India chaos and turmoil reign. In England, Jaspal and Marvinder's father, Govind Singh, is in prison. Jaspal cannot forgive him, and longs to return to his village in the Punjab where he feels he belongs...

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