Tomb of sand /
Geetanjali Shree ; translated by Daisy Rockwell.

Description

Main Author

Gītāñjali Śrī, 1957-

Related Names

Rockwell, Daisy, translator.

Language(s)

English

Published

©2021
[London] : Tilted Axis Press, [2021]

Subjects

Interpersonal relations.
Joint families.
Familles indivises > Familles indivises / Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Interpersonal relations > Interpersonal relations / Fiction.
Joint families > Joint families / Fiction.
Transgender people > Transgender people / Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Mothers and daughters / Fiction.
Widows > Widows / Fiction.
Older women > Older women / Fiction.
Pakistan.
Pakistan > Pakistan / Fiction.
Novels.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.

Summary

"An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention - including striking up a friendship with a hijra (trans) woman - confuses her bohemian daughter, who is used to thinking of herself as the more 'modern' of the two. At the older woman's insistence they travel back to Pakistan, simultaneously confronting the unresolved trauma of her teenage experiences of Partition, and re-evaluating what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a woman, a feminist."--Publisher.

Note

Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.
Originally published in Hindi by Rajkamal Prakashan, 2018.

Physical Description

735 pages ; 20 cm

ISBN

9781911284611
1911284614

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