An edition of What the body remembers (1999)

What the body remembers

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An edition of What the body remembers (1999)

What the body remembers

a novel

1st ed.
  • 3.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 70 Want to read
  • 15 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

"It is 1937 in a small village in Punjab, India, the beginning of the tense and tumultuous decade that will culminate in the violent and still controversial Partition between India and Pakistan. Roop is a young girl whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father is deep in debt. And so she is elated when she learns that she is to become the second wife of a wealthy Sikh landowner, Sardarji, whose first wife, Satya, has failed to bear him any children.

Roop initially believes that Satya, still very much in residence, will treat her as a friend or even a sister, but it quickly becomes apparent that their relationship will be far more complicated than that."--BOOK JACKET.

"What the Body Remembers becomes Satya's story too, as she is forced to adopt ever more desperate measures to maintain her place in society and in her husband's heart. And it is also Sardarji's story, as the India he knows and understands begins to change beneath his feet. The escalating tensions in his own family reflect those of the religious and political dynamics that will lead to the cleaving of India - and trap the Sikhs in the middle of a horror wrought by the wresting of land.

In a dramatic, terrifying conclusion the tragedy and strength of Roop, Satya, and Sardarji's lives reflect the greater world in which they must survive."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
N.A. Talese
Language
English
Pages
471

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What the Body Remembers
2000, Vintage Canada
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Cover of: What the body remembers
What the body remembers
2000, Anchor
in English
Cover of: What the body remembers
What the body remembers: a novel
1999, N.A. Talese
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: What the body remembers
What the body remembers
1999, Doubleday
in English

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Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PR9199.3.B355 W47 1999, PR9199.3.B355W47

The Physical Object

Pagination
471 p. :
Number of pages
471

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL40127M
Internet Archive
whatbodyremember00bald
ISBN 10
0385496044
LCCN
99030320
OCLC/WorldCat
504866151
Library Thing
87721
Goodreads
1943834

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