What the body remembers
Record details
- ISBN: 9780676973181
- ISBN: 0676973183
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Physical Description:
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515 pages : map ; 21 cm - Edition: Vintage Canada edition.
- Publisher: Toronto, Ont. : Vintage Canada, 2000.
Content descriptions
Awards Note: | Commonwealth Writers Prize - Best Book in Canada |
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Subject: | Young women -- India -- Fiction Sikhs -- Fiction Arranged marriage -- Fiction India -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction Pakistan -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Canadian fiction. |
Topic Heading: | Women authors - Culture > Fiction |
Available copies
- 2 of 4 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 0 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | Bald (Text) | 33294001752989 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-04-08 |
Summary:
Out of the rich culture of India and the brutal drama of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women married to the same man. Roop is a young girl whose mother has died and whose father is deep in debt. So she is elated to learn she is to become the second wife of a wealthy Sikh landowner in a union beneficial to both, for Sardaji's first wife, Satya, has failed to bear him children. Roop believes that she and Satya, still very much in residence, will be friends. But the relationship between the older and younger woman is far more complex. And, as India lurches toward independence, Sardarji struggles to find his place amidst the drastic changes.