The Keeper of the Lighthouse: A Migrant

About the book

When the British drew a line across the Indian subcontinent in 1947, Yasin found himself on the wrong side of it overnight. As the violence began, the responsibility fell to him, a teenager, to bring his family across the new border on foot, through a landscape of massacre and starvation, with no guarantee any of them would survive the walk. They reached the other side with almost nothing. What he did next, with no possessions and no safety net, using only his own two hands, is the story his grandson has spent years setting down before it could be lost. The Keeper of the Lighthouse is the true account of one ordinary man caught in one of the largest forced migrations in human history, and what it costs, and means, to start over. It is a story of displacement and endurance that belongs to millions, told here through the life of one.