Across the Black Waters – Mulk Raj Anand

Across the Black Waters is probably (Anand’s) best novel since Untouchable, for it exactly communicates the claustrophobic tension of men in the front line, the imminence
of death, and the pervading sense of inevitability which is the source of Anand’s anger, and at the same time, is at the root of so much Indian fiction. We never lose awareness that this is an Indian novel…’
‘His descriptions of brutality match in compassion and outrage, and perhaps also in poetic flair, those of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, or David Jones.’
Alastair Niven, British Literary Critic
Across the Black Waters – Mulk Raj Anand