![]() ![]() She starts adding even the most small events of her daily life, like what she did, where she went and what she cooked with Kazi. Quiet girl Nisha, starts filling it up regularly at night when everybody went to sleep. The story begins at July 1947 just a month before independence from the British Raj, when Nisha receives a diary from Kazi, the family’s cook as her 12th birthday gift. It is told in Nisha’s pov as diary entries written in the form of letters to her deceased mother. The Night Diary is a tragic yet beautiful book that tells you the story of the Partition through the eyes of a 12 year old. But even if her country has been ripped apart, Nisha still believes in the possibility of putting herself back together. The journey is long, difficult, and dangerous, and after losing her mother as a baby, Nisha can’t imagine losing her homeland, too. When Papa decides it’s too dangerous to stay in what is now Pakistan, Nisha and her family become refugees and embark first by train but later on foot to reach her new home. Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn’t know where she belongs, or what her country is anymore. ![]() The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders. ![]() It’s 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. Publisher: Penguin Random House (Dial Imprint) ![]()
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