Ticket to India
N. H. Senzai
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN: 1481422596
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A family trip to India turns into a grand adventure in this contemporary novel about the Great Partition, from the award-winning author of Saving Kabul Corner and Shooting Kabul.
A map, two train tickets, and a mission. These are things twelve-year-old Maya and her big sister Zara have when they set off on their own from Delhi to their grandmother’s childhood home of Aminpur, a small town in Northern India. Their goal is to find a chest of family treasures that their grandmother’s family left behind when they fled from India to Pakistan during the Great Partition. But soon the sisters become separated, and Maya is alone. Determined to find her grandmother’s lost chest, she continues her trip, enlisting help on the way from an orphan boy named Jai.
Maya’s grand adventure through India is as thrilling as it is warm: a journey through her family’s history becomes a real coming-of-age quest.
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Maya shivered. She couldn’t imagine not knowing what her parents looked like or what it must have felt like to be alone in the world. “My mother, according to family tradition, had four rings made, for each of her daughters. They were betrothal rings to be given to our husbands on our engagement day. But,” she continued with a hollow chuckle, “I came to your Nanabba penniless, without family or possessions. So it became my life’s obsession, if you will, to find the chest containing my family’s.
Would be overjoyed. And Nanabba, he’d get his ring. “Okay,” she exhaled. “We owe it to her to help finish what we started together.” “Good.” Zara smiled and hurried toward the door. “We’ll be back the day after tomorrow, before Mom has time to get herself totally worked up.” Pushing aside the desire to give her grandmother a kiss, since she might wake her, Maya joined Zara just inside the doorway, scanning the hospital hallway to make sure none of the nurses or Dr. Kumar was around. Coast.
He washed the tips of his �fingers from a tin cup of water. Maya tensed. “Oh . . . they’re, uh, coming.” “Coming from where?” he probed. Before he could get more suspicious, she stood up. “Thanks so much for breakfast, but we have to go.” “Wait,” said Bhagat with a frown. But she and Jai were already scurrying away, back toward the trees. When they were safely hidden behind the tree trunks, Jai tucked a puri filled with egg into his pocket. But it was what was in his other hand that made.
Originated in the fifteenth century in the Punjab region tatti: Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi word for poo tehzeeb: “Culture and manners” in Urdu Urdu: South Asian language in the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European family of languages; national language of Pakistan, official language of five Indian states, and one of the twenty-two scheduled languages in the Constitution of India vindaloo: Highly spiced, hot Indian curry from the Goan Coast Walaikum Salaam: Traditional response to “Salaam.
1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at www.simonspeakers.com. Book design by Chloë Foglia The text for this book is set in Bembo. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Senzai, N. H. Ticket to india / N.H. Senzai.—First edition. pages cm “A Paula Wiseman Book.” Summary: When twelve-year-old Maya and big sister Zara set off on their own from Delhi to their grandmother’s home of Aminpur, a small town in Northern India, they become separated and Maya decides to continue their.