What The Body Remembers by Shauna Singh-Baldwin

What The Body Remembers by Shauna Singh-Baldwin

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Summary

Set in the Punjab in 1937, "What the Body Remembers" reveals the mounting tension that preceded partition. This tension is reflected in the lives of a respected man whose wife is unable to bear children and his young second wife, a village girl.

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What The Body Remembers by Shauna Singh-Baldwin

Told through the stories of two Punjabi women, Shauna Singh Baldwin's award-winning novel is a rich and multi-layered portrait of India's bloody struggle into independence.
Shauna Singh Baldwin was born in Montreal to a Sikh family and grew up in India. The author of English Lessons and Other Stories and the co-author of A Foreign Visitor's Survival Guide to America, her short stories have been published widely and she has won numerous prestigious literary prizes in Canada and India. hat the Body Remembers is her first novel and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the Caribbean and Canada region. She lives in Milwaukee with her Irish-American husband.
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ISBN 13 9780552999601
ISBN 10 0552999601
Title What The Body Remembers
Author Shauna Singh Baldwin
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published 2000-09-01
Number of pages 544
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.