TY - BOOK AU - Anand, Mulk Raj TI - Across the Black Waters SN - 9788122202588 U1 - 823 AND PY - 2018/// CY - New Delhi PB - Orient Paperbacks KW - Fiction KW - Indians Fiction KW - World War, 1914-1918 Fiction N2 - Across the Black Waters is widely rated as an outstanding novel. It is a simple story about the ultimate futility and sorrow of war. It is a journey not just from a small village in Punjab to Flanders, from father to soldier, field to front — but from a soul that nurtures to one that kills. Overlooking the claims of war classics like All Quiet on the Western Front, the British Council selected and adapted this novel into a play to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War I. The book has been translated into eleven European languages ER -