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02088aam a2200301 i 4500 001 4A6FA300FE8311EC9AB61AAE3AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220708010031 008 210506s2021 enk e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9781911284611 020 $a 1911284614 035 $a (OCoLC)1249796774 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SINLB $d YDX $d YDXIT $d YDX $d OCL $d OCLCO $d UKOBU $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d LE# $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h hin 043 $a a-pk--- 100 0 $a G�it�a�njali �Sr�i, $d 1957- $e author. 240 10 $a Reta-sam�adhi. $l English 245 10 $a Tomb of sand / $c Geetanjali Shree ; translated by Daisy Rockwell. 264 1 $a London : $b Tilted Axis Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 725 pages ; $c 20 cm 500 $a Originally published in Hindi by Rajkashan Prakashan, 2018. 500 $a Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. 500 $a Translated from Hindi. 520 $a 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 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. 700 1 $a Rockwell Daisy, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220708010640.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4A6FA300FE8311EC9AB61AAE3AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search