01565nam a22001937a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100080008308200170009110000210010824500170012926000330014630000250017936500680020452010490027265000270132170000230134820251016111829.0251016b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780143448471  cAL  aeng  a820.33bSHRT  aGeetanjali Shree  aTomb of sand  aHaryanabPenguin Booksc2024  a739p.bPBc22x13.5cm  2EnglishaHYD8-5474906b₹405.65c₹d₹405.65e0f16-10-2025  aWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2022
Winner of an English Pen Award
LONGLISTED FOR THE JCB PRIZE 2022
In northern India, an eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband, and 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 transgender person - confuses her bohemian daughter, who is used to thinking of herself as the more 'modern' of the two.
To her family's consternation, Ma insists on travelling to Pakistan, simultaneously confronting the unresolved trauma of her 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.  aIndian English Fiction  aRockwell, Daisy Tr