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What the body remembers by shauna singh baldwin
What the body remembers by shauna singh baldwin








what the body remembers by shauna singh baldwin what the body remembers by shauna singh baldwin

From pages where one can almost smell the smoke of the chulhas and watch wheat being winnowed, this is the story of the two wives of Sardarji. The story opens in pre-Partition India - in an area now in Pakistan. The delicacy of prose belies the robustness of narrative. What the Body Remembers is a powerful story that can place itself in the tradition of grand story-telling.The theme is bold, the sweep of the compass is wide and it is filled with vividly drawn characters, including carefully crafted cameos. This had followed two of her earlier books, A Foreign Visitor’s Survival Guide to America (1992) and English Lessons and Other Stories (1996). It is two decades since Shauna Singh Baldwin’s debut novel, What the Body Remembers, was published and immediately placed her in the literary limelight.










What the body remembers by shauna singh baldwin