PENGUIN The Night Diary

Read it quickly and was entranced by the story.

Such an intense page-turner, that felt like it was begging to be written. The flow is fantastic, and you just won't put it down.

The Night Diary by @veerawrites is a middle grade book, that describes the year, 1947. Where bells of happiness rang because of Independence, sadness was accompanied with partition.Nisha, a 12yr old hindu, who lived in the now Pakistan part has to move to the now India part, because partition led to riots between the Hindu and the Muslims. With her father, brother and grandmother, she embarks ok this dangerous journey. She ends up learning various lessons for life and growing in her own silence. This book is dedicated to her late muslim mother, in the form of her diary entries. Torn between life and death, she talks to her mother and diary while remaining silent to the entire world.The writing style was good. There were minor errors, which may be the author kept unchanged because it was an informal diary entry. It describes the struggles and hardships that a young heart faced and many others. The fear, grief, uncertainty and love of a daughter was seen with all incidents. And there was a mention of a lot of food. Though it was a breezy read, I felt it was a little drag and I was expecting more from it.Overall for the Middle graders, it is a beautiful read. I would recommend it to only that age group.

Ich habe das Buch für die Uni gelesen und denke die Sprache ist leicht verständlich. Im Gegensatz zu manch anderen englischsprachigen Büchern ist das Vokabular gut zu verstehen oder aus dem Zusammenhang zu verstehen, weshalb ich das Buch auch an z.B. Oberstufenschüler empfehlen kann, die ihr Englisch vorm Abi verbessern wollen. Die Erzählerin ist das junge Mädchen Nisha, die mit ihrer Familie während der Teilung Indiens nach dessen Unabhängigkeit zwischen den Fronten steht. Anschaulich erzählt ermöglicht es einen lebendigen Einblick in die indische Geschichte ohne dabei nur mit Fakten um sich zu werfen.

Wonderful book about the partition told from a child's perspective, I think helps kids to understand what happened, good for middle graders.