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Tomb of Sand
Hardcover
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $29.99
ISBN13: 9780063299405
Publisher: Harpervia
Published: Jan 31 2023
Pages: 624
Weight: 1.67
Height: 1.56 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
Awards: Man Booker International Prize
WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
A triumph of literature.--Financial Times
Echoes of James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Isabel Allende and Leo Tolstoy. . . . An enchanting ride.--BookPage
A breath of fresh air.--Guardian
A playful, feminist, and utterly original epic of Indian literature in translation, set in contemporary northern India, about a family and the inimitable octogenarian matriarch at its heart.
A tale tells itself. It can be complete, but also incomplete, the way all tales are. This particular tale has a border and women who come and go as they please. Once you've got women and a border, a story can write itself . . .
Eighty-year-old Ma slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband, beginning a poignant story of grief and rebirth. Despite her family's cajoling, she refuses to leave her bed. Her responsible eldest son, Bade, and dutiful, Reebok-sporting daughter-in-law, Bahu, attend to Ma's every need, while her favorite grandson, the cheerful and gregarious Sid, tries to lift her spirits with his guitar. But it is only after Sid's younger brother--Serious Son, a young man pathologically incapable of laughing--brings his grandmother a sparkling golden cane covered with butterflies that things begin to change.
With a new lease on life thanks to the cane's seemingly magical powers, Ma gets out of bed and embarks on a series of adventures that baffle even her unconventional feminist daughter, Beti, testing their complex mother-daughter relationship. She ditches her cumbersome saris, develops a close friendship with a hijra, and sets off on a fateful journey that will turn the family's understanding of themselves upside down.
Rich with fantastical elements, folklore, and exuberant wordplay, Geetanjali Shree's magnificent novel is a masterpiece of magical realism that explores timely and timeless topics, including Buddhism, global warming, feminism, Partition literature, gender binary, transcending borders, and the profound joys of life. Elegant, heartbreaking, and funny, it is a literary masterpiece that marks the American debut of an extraordinary writer.
Translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell
Author's name pronounced: Ghee-TAHN-juh-lee Shree
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