01649nam a22002177a 4500 20251016111829.0 251016b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780143448471 AL eng 820.33 SHRT Geetanjali Shree 242360 Tomb of sand Haryana Penguin Books 2024 739p. PB 22x13.5cm English HYD8-5474906 ₹405.65 ₹ ₹405.65 0 16-10-2025 WINNER 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. Indian English Fiction 242358 Rockwell, Daisy Tr 242359 ddc BK 240562 240562 0 0 ddc 0 0 ENG AL AL SSS 2025-10-16 amazon.in 405.65 1 820.33 SHRT 077925 2026-02-13 2025-10-16 15:33:09 2025-10-16 405.65 2025-10-03 BK