{"product_id":"9781448214822","title":"Bhowani Junction","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1954 in the wake of the partition of India, John Masters' great novel\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e Bhowani Junction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e has increased in stature over the years. Standing between E.M. Forster's \u003ci\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/i\u003e and the acclaimed works of later writers such as Paul Scott and Salman Rushdie, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBhowani Junction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is both a richly intriguing novel and a superb evocation of the tensions and conflicts at the birth of modern India.\u003cbr\u003eIt is one of John Masters' seven novels which followed several generations of the Savage family serving in the British Army in India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBhowani Junction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their place in the new India that is emerging. In the last hectic days of the British Raj, Victoria has to choose between marrying a British Army officer or a Sikh, Ranjit, as she struggles to find her place in the new, independent India.\u003cbr\u003eIt is Masters' most famous novel, and was made into a film in 1956, starring Ava Gardener and Stewart Granger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Masters evokes the tensions   and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India in his classic novel   Bhowani Junction. Set in the late 1940's in the wake of partition it has   become one of the great novels of India, alongside E.M. Forster's A Passage   to India and the work of Paul Scott and Salman Rushdie. In the last hectic   days of the British Raj, as the British prepare to withdraw from India,   Victoria has to choose between marrying a British Army officer or a Sikh,   Ranjit, as she struggles to find her place in the new India that is emerging.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47155258097904,"sku":"9781448214822","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781448214822_p0.jpg?v=1763832413","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781448214822","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}