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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| North Bay Public Library | FIC Shree | 33874005537864 | Adult - Fiction | Available | - |
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- ISBN: 9780063299405
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Physical Description:
603 pages ; 24 cm
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- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : HarperVia, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Summary, etc.: | "A playful, feminist, and utterly original epic ... Read More |
| Language Note: | In English, translated from Hindi. |
| Awards Note: | International Booker Prize, 2022. |
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| Subject: | Older women Fiction Widows Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Transgender people Fiction Joint families Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Pakistan Fiction |
| Genre: | Novels. Magic realist fiction. Domestic fiction. |
Summary:
"A playful, feminist, and utterly original epic about a family--especially its inimitable octogenarian matriarch--in northern India. An eighty-year-old woman, Ma, slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband. Despite her family's cajoling, she refuses to get up from bed. Her responsible eldest son, Bade, and dutiful, Reebok-sporting daughter-in-law, Bahu, flit around trying to attend to Ma's every need, while her favorite grandson, the cheerful and gregarious Sid, entertains her with his guitar. But it is only when Sid's younger brother--Serious Son, 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 powers of the cane, Ma gets out of bed and embarks on a series of adventures that baffle even her unconventional feminist daughter, Beti. She ditches her cumbersome saris, develops a close friendship with a hijra, and finally sets off on a fateful journey that will turn the family's understanding of themselves upside down. Elegant, heartbreaking, and funny all at once, Tomb of Sand is a literary masterpiece. Rich with fantastical elements, folklore, and exuberant wordplay, and encompassing such topics as Buddhism, global warming, feminism, Partition, and the gender binary, it marks the none-too-soon American debut of an extraordinary writer. Translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell"--
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