China Room - Sunjeev Sahota

Longlisted for Booker Prize 2021, China Room is a literary masterpiece, inspired by real-life events, from award winning author Sunjeev Sahota ''Sunjeev Sahota''s writing is the stuff of miracles'' - Bryan Washington ''A gorgeous, gripping read'' - Kamila Shamsie ''I''m blown away by it. I was gripped from the first page to the last'' - Tessa Hadley ''Such a thrilling combination of beauty and heartbreak. It''s breathtaking'' - Charlotte Mendelson ''An intense drama of classic themes - love, family, survival, and betrayal - told with passion and precision in Sahota''s economical, lyrical prose. China Room is a brilliant novel. I won''t forget any of these characters'' - Adam Foulds A multigenerational novel of love, oppression, trauma and the pursuit of freedom, inspired in part by the author''s own family history, China Room twines together the stories of a woman and a man separated by more than half a century but united by blood. Mehar, a young bride in the rural Punjab of 1929, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. She and her sisters-in-law, married to three brothers in a single ceremony, spend their days hard at work in the family''s ''china room'', sequestered from contact with the men. When Mehar develops a theory as to which of them is hers, a passion is ignited that puts more than one life at risk. Spiralling around Mehar''s story is that of a young man who, in 1999, travels from England to the now-deserted farm, its ''china room'' locked and barred.
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