What the Body Remembers

Author: Shauna Singh BaldwinPublisher: HarperCollinsYear: 1999Language: EnglishPages: 475ISBN/UPC (if available): 0385600437 DescriptionA heady mix of Punjab, Partition and womankind.Never before has a novel of the Partition of India been told from the point of view of the Sikh community, never before through Sikh women's eyes. Beautifully written and profoundly shocking, Shauna Singh Baldwin's debut novel is at once poetic, political, feminist and sensual.Deeply imbued with the languages, customs and layered history of colonial India, What the Body Remembers is a triumph of language and storytelling, reclaiming a strikingly intimate and vivid sense of the large and colorful canvas of India and Pakistan. Roop is a village girl in Punjab in 1937. Her mother died in childbirth and her father is in deep debt, and so it is with elation that she learns she is to become the second wife of a wealthy Sikh landowner, Sardarji, whose first wife, Satya, is forty-two year old, and has failed to b