The things that Ruthie loves best are tiny. She relishes the minute and when she finds a teeny tiny camera in the playground at school she just has to have it, even if that means telling a lie to everyone and saying the camera is hers. But lying does not come easily to Ruthie and soon she is facing up to what she has done.

An invaluable addition to the genre of Partition literarure, in this volume Alok Bhalla explores the concept of boundaries and homes through his interviews with six well-known novelists from India and Pakistan - Intizar Husain, Krishna Sobti, Bhisham Sahni, Krishna Baldev Vaid, Kamleshwar and Bapsi Sidhwa.