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100			_aGeetanjali Shree _9242360
245			_aTomb of sand
260			_aHaryana _bPenguin Books _c2024
300			_a739p. _bPB _c22x13.5cm
365			_2English _aHYD8-5474906 _b₹405.65 _c₹ _d₹405.65 _e0 _f16-10-2025
520			_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.
650			_aIndian English Fiction _9242358
700			_aRockwell, Daisy Tr _9242359
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999			_c240562 _d240562