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Tomb of sand / Geetanjali Shree ; translated by Daisy Rockwell. - [London] : Tilted Axis Press, 2021. - 735, [8] stron ; 20 cm.

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Shree Geetanjali Autor Rockwell Daisy Tłumaczenie

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Literatura indyjska

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Kobieta Starość Wdowieństwo Matki i córki Odmienność kulturowa Relacje międzypokoleniowe Depresja wieku podeszłego Przyjaźń Pakistan

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Tilted Axis Press

International Booker Prize (2022)

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 (trans) woman – 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...

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