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by Bali Rai (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Doubleday & Co Inc. (2 Jul 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0385611692
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385611695
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.4 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 154,665 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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It's 1919 and Amritsar is a city on the brink of rebellion. Riots, violence and tension spill onto the streets ...Bissen Singh fought bravely for the British Empire during World War One. Now he waits patiently for news from England. Gurdial, a young orphan, is desperate to marry Sohni, the daughter of a rich and evil man. And Jeevan, Gurdial's oldest friend, is swept up in the revolution and changing beyond all recognition. Bissen, Gurdial and Jeevan are looking to the future whilst trying to escape ghosts from the past. But as the fight for Amritsar reaches a terrifying climax, their lives will be changed for ever.


About the Author

City of Ghosts is Bali Rai's seventh young adult novel with Random House. His first,(un)arrangedmarriage, created a huge amount of interest and won many awards, including the Angus Book Award and the Leicester Book of the Year. It was also shortlisted for the prestigious Branford Boase first novel award. Rani and Sukh and The Whisper were both shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize. Bali also writes the hugely popular Soccer Squad series for younger readers. Bali was born in Leicester where he still lives, writing full-time and visiting schools to talk about his books. You can visit him at www.balirai.co.uk

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4.0 out of 5 stars City of ghosts, 3 Aug 2009
If you like a good story you will enjoy this book. The action races along as the relationships of the 3 main characters unfold, and there's a sense of impending disaster as the city heads towards riot and massacre.

This was a period of history I didn't know much about, and I hadn't realised that Indian soldiers had fought in the First World War. Although the novel is set in the past, you never feel that you are getting a history lesson. There are a lot of contemporary resonances, which make the reader wonder what forms of civil disobedience can be justified.

My only criticism is that the characterization sometimes seemed a bit thin. Having said that, the story moved at such a pace that I was happy to fill in the gaps.
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