Bhowani Junction, John Masters
Bhowani Junction, John Masters
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Bhowani Junction

Author: John Masters

Narrator: Neil Hunt, Jill Tanner, Patrick Tull

Unabridged: 15 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/30/2012

Synopsis

World War II has finally played itself out, and the British are leaving India. Through this vortex is spun a fictional plot of terror and politics that illustrates all-too-well the curse that still plagues India today. You can almost smell the mixture of dust, oil, and human sweat as the train pulls into Bhowani Junction.

About John Masters

John Masters, who was born in Calcutta in 1914, was of the fifth generation of his family to have served in India.  Educated at Wellington and Sandhurst, he returned to India in 1934 to join the 4th Prince of Wales’ Own Gurkha Rifles. He saw service in Waxiristan in 1937 and, after the outbreak of war, in Iraq, Syria and Persia. In 1944, he commanded a brigade of General Wingate’s Chindits in Burma, and later fought with the 19th Indian Division at the capture of Mandaly and on the Mawchi Road. Masters retired from the army in 1948 as a lieutenant colonel with the DSO and OBE. He went to America and turned to writing. He is best known for his novels, published by Sphere Books Ltd, most famously Bhowani Junction. John Masters died in New Mexico in May 1983, at the age of sixty-eight.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marcus

BHOWANI JUNCTION, John Masters There are some 3 million books available to read. More and more are coming out each day. Publishers focus is on their current crop of books; the old ones are left to die in the wilderness. Not because the old books are inferior, many are better — but because publisher......more

Goodreads review by Corto

Another well-crafted novel from John Masters about the end of the British Raj, and one woman who is torn between three identities: Anglo-Indian, Indian, or "English". The story is told from the perspectives of three different narrators Victoria Jones (Anglo-Indian Army officer, on terminal leave), P......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

Touchingly personal, achingly poignant, and utterly absorbing. Bhowani Junction is one of those rare novels which just has it all: one of those books, which, after having finished reading it, leaves you feeling as though you are saying goodbye for the very last time, to dear, dear friends. This book i......more

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