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. Her determination to fly in the face of convention - including striking up a friendship with a hijra person - confuses her bohemian daughter, who is used to thinking of herself as the more 'modern' of the two.

At the older woman's insistence they travel back 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.

Winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize

About the Author
Author of three novels and several story collections, Geetanjali Shree's work has been translated into English, French, German, Serbian, and Korean. She has received and been shortlisted for a number of awards and fellowships, and lives in New Delhi. Daisy Rockwell is an artist, writer, and translator, whose acclaimed translations from the Hindi include works by Krishna Sobti, Khadija Mastur, Upendranath Ashk, and Bhisham Sahni. Daisy Rockwell is a painter, writer and translator living in the US. She has translated a number of classic works of Hindi and Urdu literature, including Upendranath Ashk's Falling Walls, Bhisham Sahni's Tamas, and Khadija Mastur's The Women's Courtyard. Her 2019 translation of Krishna Sobti's A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There was awarded the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Translation Prize.

Awards
Winner of International Booker 2022 and The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2022.



Book Information
ISBN 9781911284611
Author Geetanjali Shree
Format Paperback
Page Count 752
Imprint Tilted Axis Press
Publisher Tilted Axis Press