Road to Abana by @gwalanilata Lata Gwalani
Published by Vishwakarma publishers
Book length - 232 pages
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Nobody wins a war but humanity only looses in the end.
What happens when two nations start war? People are left homeless. Sone forget to come back and some live with the everlasting dreams of returning to their Abana.
Road to Abana is a story that talks about the dream, the dream that keeps many alive to reclaim their home back.
Nobody can forget their homes. Neither one can live with the fact that they were forced to live in an unknown place while their homes were destroyed.
Here is paari, who is now a refugee living in a camp with her sister and brother in-law after partition. The emotional pain of loosing home was as if not enough that on top of that she looses her husband and baby.
When all windows start to shut down she sees a ray of hope by smuggling jewellery and guns to India and Afghanistan through a lead in Pakistan. While she is finally determined to follow her dreams to take baby steps towards her home a betrayal deters her pace towards it.
It's a story that speaks the truth and reality of many. See the case of Ukraine and Russia right now. So many got homeless. It's definitely a thoughtful fiction.
Will she return home? What secrets will open her eyes towards the truth? Will she leave her dream or finally return on the road to her Abana ?
From the deplorable refugee camp in Ulhasnagar on the outskirts of Bombay where she lives on the fringe of humanity, to the dark alleys of Karachi and the treacherous terrains of Afghanistan it is a beautiful fiction to read.