Bibliograph

Tomb of sand, Geetanjali Shree ; translated by Daisy Rockwell

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Tomb of sand, Geetanjali Shree ; translated by Daisy Rockwell

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Tomb of sand

Responsibility statement

Geetanjali Shree ; translated by Daisy Rockwell

Summary

An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life and travels back to Pakistan with her daughter, 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

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