Sunlight on a Broken Column

“Sunlight on a Broken Column,” by Attia Hosain, did not exactly turn to be a plot driven book that I couldn’t put down. Instead, it allowed me to take a look at the life of an upper class Muslim family with a culture and a time in history that I was unfamiliar with, just before Partition. But I was able to relate to this culture that I barely knew anything about just by the common ideas about school, friendships, and romances. I like how the two brothers are split up by Partition in the book because they come to each represent a side of the battle.