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Book 2019

The Night Diary

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Publisher
Puffin Books
Published
2019
  • Families
  • Diaries
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Family life
  • Fiction
  • Hindus
  • Muslims
  • Refugees

Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.