The World is a Bridge

by Christine Weston

Set in post-independence India, the novel portrays the relationships, personal and political, between Hindus and Muslims.

276 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1950

About the author

British writer born Christine Goutiere in Unao in northern India. She married an American businessman, Robert Weston in 1923, and moved with him to Maine, where she resided thereafter. Some of her fiction is set in New England. After her first husband's death in the early 1950's, she married Roger Griswold in 1960. He died in 1973.

Weston wrote 10 novels; more than 30 short stories, most of which appeared in The New Yorker magazine; two nonfiction books - on Ceylon and Afghanistan, respectively - and a children's book.

She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1940.