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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. In enforced flight from the traumas of his adolescence-his experiences of addiction, racism and estrangement from the culture of his birth-he spends a summer in painful contemplation and recovery, before finally finding the strength to return home.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 14 November 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0143460072
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143460077
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 180 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
Net Quantity ‏ : ‎ 500.00 Grams
Best Sellers Rank: #226,356 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #212 in 20th Century Historical Romance (Books) #572 in Multicultural & Interracial Romance #4,840 in Historical Fiction (Books)
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