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Ret Smadhi

Pages
512
Published
2018
Language
Hindi

Synopsis

An 80-year-old woman in northern India finds a new zest for life after her husband's death, much to the bewilderment of her modern daughter. Defying expectations, she embarks on a journey to Pakistan to confront the unresolved trauma of her teenage experiences during the Partition. Geetanjali Shree navigates these serious subjects with a playful spirit and inventive language.

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Geetanjali Shree

Geetanjali Shree (born 1957 in Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, India) is a Hindi-language novelist and short-story writer based in New Delhi. She studied history at Lady Shri Ram College and earned a master's degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University; she began writing fiction during doctoral research on the Hindi novelist Munshi Premchand. Her novels include Mai, Hamara Shahar Us Baras, Tirohit and Khali Jagah. Her 2018 novel Ret Samadhi, translated into English by Daisy Rockwell as Tomb of Sand, won th...

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