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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
| International Standard Book Number |
9780143448471 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
| Classification number |
891.43371 |
| Item number |
SHR |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
| Personal name |
Shree, Gitanjali |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
| Title |
Tomb of sand |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Haryana, India |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Penguin Random House India |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2022 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
| Extent |
725p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
| Summary, etc |
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 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
| Item type |
Books |