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What the Body Remembers
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Set in the twilight of the Raj, this internationally acclaimed historical novel tells the story of the Partition of India through the eyes of the two wives of a wealthy Sikh. Sixteen-year-old Roop is elated when she discovers that she will marry Oxford-educated Sardarji. But Sardarji's first wife is humiliated and enraged by his secret marriage to a village girl who is as fertile as she is barren. Pretending to be solicitous of her young rival, Satya takes charge of Roop's children and secretly plots her downfall.
Shauna Singh Baldwin's first novel, What the Body Remembers, was published in 1999 by Knopf Canada, Transworld UK, Doubleday USA, and (as an audiobook) by Goose Lane Editions. It received the 2000 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book (Canada-Caribbean region) and has been translated into fourteen languages. Her second novel The Tiger Claw was a finalist for Canada's Giller Prize 2004. Shauna is the author of English Lessons and Other Stories and coauthor of A Foreign Visitor's Survival Guide to America. Her awards include the 1995 Writer's Union of Canada Award for short prose and the 1997 Canadian Literary Award. English Lessons received the 1996 Friends of American Writers Award.
ISBN-13:
9780864922786
Veröffentl:
2000
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.2000
Autor:
Shauna Singh Baldwin
Gewicht:
254 g
Format:
141x111x35 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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