02623cam a22003498i 4500 14030 14030 22689699 OSt 20260223125223.0 m |o d | cr_||||||||||| 220708s2023 nyu o 000 1 eng 2022028406 9780143448471 eng AEF English 23rd ed. 891.4/337 SHR Shree, Gitanjali 1957- author. 4592 Reta-samādhi. English Tomb of sand : a novel / Geetanjali Shree ; translated by Daisy Rockwell. First edition. New Delhi: Penguin random house, 2022 739 p.: 22 cm "WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A playful, feminist, and utterly original epic about a family-especially its inimitable octogenarian matriarch-in northern India. An eighty-year-old woman, Ma, slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband. Despite her family's cajoling, she refuses to get up from bed. Her responsible eldest son, Bade, and dutiful, Reebok-sporting daughter-in-law, Bahu, flit around trying to attend to Ma's every need, while her favorite grandson, the cheerful and gregarious Sid, entertains her with his guitar. But it is only when Sid's younger brother-Serious Son, pathologically incapable of laughing-brings his grandmother a sparkling golden cane covered with butterflies that things begin to change. With a new lease on life thanks to the powers of the cane, Ma gets out of bed and embarks on a series of adventures that baffle even her unconventional feminist daughter, Beti. She ditches her cumbersome saris, develops a close friendship with a hijra, and finally sets off on a fateful journey that will turn the family's understanding of themselves upside down. Elegant, heartbreaking, and funny all at once, Tomb of Sand is a literary masterpiece. Rich with fantastical elements, folklore, and exuberant wordplay, and encompassing such topics as Buddhism, global warming, feminism, Partition, and the gender binary, it marks the none-too-soon American debut of an extraordinary writer. Translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell"-- Provided by publisher. International Booker Prize, 2022. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. English 4593 Domestic fiction. lcgft 2259 Magic realist fiction. lcgft 4594 Novels. lcgft 4396 Rockwell, Daisy, translator. 4595 ddc Book 0 0 ddc 0 0 ENG AEF AEF 2026-04-02 20 559.20 11523 2026-04-02 01 699.00 2026-04-02 Book