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Title Statement | Tomb of sand / Geetanjali Shree ; translated by Daisy Rockwell. |
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Author | Shree, Geetanjali 1957- |
Additional Contributors | Rockwell, Daisy |
Publication | [London]: Tilted Axis Press,[2021]Ã2021 |
Extent of Item | 735 pages ; |
ISBN | 1911284614 9781911284611 |
Other Number | (OCoLC)1249796774 |
General Notes | Originally published in Hindi by Rajkamal Prakashan, 2018. Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. |
Languages | Translated from Hindi. |
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. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Older women--Fiction |
Widows--Fiction | |
Mothers and daughters--Fiction | |
Transgender people--Fiction | |
Joint families--Fiction | |
Interpersonal relations--Fiction | |
Familles indivises--Romans, nouvelles, etc | |
By Location | Pakistan--Fiction |
By Genre | Domestic fiction |
Novels |