A Flight of Pigeons
A Flight of Pigeons is a novella by Indian author Ruskin Bond. The story is set in 1857, and is about Ruth Labadoor and her family (who are British) who take help of Hindus and Muslims to reach their relatives when the family's patriarch is killed in a church by the Indian rebels. The novella is an adaptation of the novel Mariam: A Story of the Indian Mutiny (1896) by J. F. Fanthome and is a mix of fiction and non fiction and was adapted into a film in 1978 called Junoon by Shyam Benegal, starring Shashi Kapoor, his wife Jennifer Kendal, and Nafisa Ali.
| Author | Ruskin Bond |
|---|---|
| Original title | ahilan |
| Country | India |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novella |
| Published | 1978 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 144 pp (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-670-04927-1 (Penguin edition, hardcover) |
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