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Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border
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Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border Paperback - 2000

by Stephen Alter


First line

While crossing the border on August 30 in 1947, the one thing that dominated our minds was that we all knew that we were coming to India but we did not know where we'd go from there.

Details

  • Title Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border
  • Author Stephen Alter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
  • Date 2000-08-11
  • ISBN 9780812217438 / 0812217438
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Indian
  • Library of Congress subjects India - Description and travel, Pakistan - Description and travel
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00033800
  • Dewey Decimal Code 915.404

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 11/01/2000, Page 120
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2001, Page 34

About the author

Stephen Alter is Writer-in-Residence in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An accomplished writer in both fiction and nonfiction, he is the author of four novels and the memoir All the Way to Heaven: An American Boyhood in the Himalayas.