Across the Black Waters

Across the Black Waters is widely rated as an outstanding novel. It is a simple story about the ultimate futility and sorrow of war. It is a journey not just from a small village in Punjab to Flanders, from father to soldier, field to front — but from a soul that nurtures to one that kills.

Overlooking the claims of war classics like All Quiet on the Western Front, the British Council selected and adapted this novel into a play to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War I.

The book has been translated into eleven European languages.

"The foremost of Indian novelists." - Daily Telegraph

"His descriptions of brutality match in compassion and outrage, and perhaps also in peotic flair, those of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sasson, or David Jones." - Alastair Niven, British Literary Critic