Longlisted for Booker Prize 2021, China Room is a literary masterpiece, inspired by reallife events, from award winning author Sunjeev Sahota Sunjeev Sahotas writing is the stuff of miracles Bryan Washington A gorgeous, gripping read Kamila Shamsie Im blown away by it. I was gripped from the first page to the last Tessa Hadley Such a thrilling combination of beauty and heartbreak. Its breathtaking Charlotte Mendelson An intense drama of classic themes love, family, survival, and betrayal told with passion and precision in Sahotas economical, lyrical prose. China Room is a brilliant novel. I wont forget any of these characters Adam Foulds A multigenerational novel of love, oppression, trauma and the pursuit of freedom, inspired in part by the authors 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 sistersinlaw, married to three brothers in a single ceremony, spend their days hard at work in the familys 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 Mehars story is that of a young man who, in 1999, travels from England to the nowdeserted farm, its china room locked and barred. In enforced flight from the traumas of his...

Binding: Hardback;256 pages; Publisher: Penguin Random House India; Classification: FA; Weight: 498 g; Dimensions: 147 x 224 x 26

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