Across the Black Waters

Across the Black Waters is widely rated as an outstanding novel. It is a simple story about the ultimate futility and sorry 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 should 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.