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Review
of Shauna Singh Baldwin's Latest Novel Inspired By
Legendary Spy Noor Khan
By
Binoy Thomas |
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Excerpts....
Shauna Singh Baldwin is yet to achieve the name
recognition that a Rohinton Mistry or an M.D. Vassanji,
both Canada-based South Asian writers, easily command
here.
Though born in Montreal to Sikh parents, Shauna
has spent very little of her life in Canada, having
been brought up in India and then found her love
and calling in the USA. |
The
Tiger Claw, a fictionalized account of the real
life adventures of an Indian Muslim girl who became
a legendary British spy deployed into German-occupied
France during the Second World War.
Noor was born to her Indian
father and an American mother, and they lived in
London before the First World War. But because of
a poem that Khan wrote against the British occupation
of India, he was harassed by the British authorities.
So he moved to Paris in 1914. Noor went to Sorbonne
University and became an author of children's stories.
When France fell to Germans, the Khan family fled
to England in 1940. Noor trained there as a wireless
operator and the British spy masters saw the immense
potential in her. She became Special Operations
Executive, trained to spy on the enemy from the
occupied territory. She arrived back in France clandestinely
in 1943 summer and set up her radio operations in
Paris.
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