Tomb of Sand (HB Special Edition) WINNER OF THE INTERNATION BOOKER PRIZE 2022

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2022WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARDIn 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.