Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree

Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree

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 person – 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. Rather than respond to tragedy with seriousness, Geetanjali Shree's playful tone and exuberant wordplay results in a book that is engaging, funny, and utterly original, at the same time as being an urgent and timely protest against the destructive impact of borders and boundaries, whether between religions, countries, or genders.

Author of five novels and several story collections, Geetanjali Shree’s work has been translated into English, French, German, Serbian and Korean. She is the winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize and has received numerous accolades. She lives in New Delhi. Daisy Rockwell is a painter, writer and translator living in the US. She has translated a number of classic works of Hindi and Urdu literature, including Upendranath Ashk's 'Falling Walls', Bhisham Sahni's 'Tamas', and Khadija Mastur's 'The Women's Courtyard'. Her 2019 translation of Krishna Sobti's 'A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There' was awarded the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Translation Prize. She is the winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize. Daisy Rockwell is a painter, writer and translator living in the US. She has translated a number of classic works of Hindi and Urdu literature, including Upendranath Ashk's Falling Walls, Bhisham Sahni's Tamas, and Khadija Mastur's The Women's Courtyard. Her 2019 translation of Krishna Sobti's A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There was awarded the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Translation Prize.

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ISBN 13	9781911284611
ISBN 10	1911284614
Titre	Tomb of Sand
Auteur	Geetanjali Shree
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Tilted Axis Press
Année de publication	2021-08-26
Nombre de pages	752
Prix	Winner of International Booker 2022, Winner of The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2022
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