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Tomb of sand /

Shree, Geetanjali.

Tomb of sand / Geetanjali Shree ; translated by Daisy Rockwell. - United Kingdom : Gardners Books Ltd, 2021. - 725 pages ; 20 cm.

Translated from the Hindi.

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 and travels back to Pakistan with her daughter, 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.

Winner 2022 International Booker Prize for Translated Fiction.

9781911284611


Depressions--Fiction.
Feminists--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.


Pakistan--Fiction.

Fiction


Psychological fiction.
[GENRE]--Print --Adult fiction

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