What the Body Remembers A Novel

Name: What the Body Remembers A Novel
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ISBN: 9780385496056

ISBN-10: 0385496052

ISBN-13: 9780385496056

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Shauna Singh Baldwin

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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. …

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/16/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.23" wide x 8.00" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Shauna Singh Baldwin is the author of three novels and two story collections. Her stories have won numerous awards in Canada and the US, including the CBC Literary Prize. She lives in Milwaukee.