What the Body Remembers - Hardcover

What the Body Remembers: A Novel.

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Buchbeschreibung Paperback. Zustand: Gut. 481 p. Einband minimal berieben, Kopfschnitt leicht angeschmutzt, aber innen sehr sauber und ohne Anstreichungen / Binding minimally rubbed, top edge slightly soiled, but very clean inside and without annotations. - It is 1987 in a small village in Punjab, India, the beginning of the tense and tumultuous decade that will culminate in the violent and still controversial Partition between India and Pakistan. Roop is a young girl whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father is deep in debt. And so she is elated when she learns that she is to become the second wife of a wealthy Sikh landowner, Sadarji, whose first wife, Satya, has failed to bear him any children. Roop initially believes that Satya, still very much in residence, will treat her as a friend or even a sister, but it quickly becomes apparent that their relationship will be far more complicated than that. Roop's story pulls the reader immediately into her world, making it seem startlingly universal, but What the Body Remembers is not solely hers. It is very much Satya's story, as she is forced to adopt ever more desperate measures to maintain her place in society and in her husband's heart. And it is also Sadarji's story, as the India he knows and understands begins to change beneath his feet, and the escalating tensions in his own family reflect the shifts in religious, ethnic, and political dynamics that will lead to the cleaving of Indiaand trap the Sikhs in the middle of a horror wrought by the wresting of the land. Deeply imbued with the languages, customs, and layered history of colonial India, What the Body Remembers tells the story of the Partition for the first time from the women's point of view, reclaiming a strikingly intimate and vivid sense of the large and colorful canvas of India and Pakistan. Beautifully written and profoundly shocking, Shauna Singh Baldwin's debut novel is at once poetic, political, feminist, and sensual-a true triumph of language and storytelling. ISBN 9780385496049 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 832. Artikel-Nr. 1214149

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