Tomb of Sand
by Geetanjali Shree (tr. Daisy Rockwell)
"At eighty, Ma gets out of bed — and walks straight toward the border that split her life."
After her husband's death, an eighty-year-old woman rises from her bed, scandalises her family by befriending a hijra woman, and travels to Pakistan to face the unfinished business of Partition. Exuberant, playful and profound.
Worth knowing
Winner of the International Booker Prize — the first for any Hindi-language novel.
