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What the body remembers

Baldwin, Shauna Singh (author.).

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.

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  • ISBN: 9780676973181
  • ISBN: 0676973183
  • Physical Description: print
    515 pages : map ; 21 cm
  • Edition: Vintage Canada edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ont. : Vintage Canada, 2000.

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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

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Prince Rupert Library Bald (Text) 33294001752989 Adult Fiction - Second Floor Volume hold Checked out 2024-04-08
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