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Mom, an eighty-year-old woman in northern India, sinks into a period of depression after the death of her husband and, when she comes to, is flooded with a new appetite for life.
Determined to sweep aside every rule and limitation, she causes a stir with her unconventional choices. She makes friends with a hijra, a person of the third gender, and turns her daughter's daily life upside down, who until that point was considered the most open-minded member of the family.
Mom, against all odds, travels to Pakistan and confronts the historical trauma of the Partition of India and displacement, experiences that marked her adolescence and subsequent path.
What does it mean to be a mother, daughter, woman, feminist? The concepts acquire new and unpredictable meanings here, never being confined to rigid boundaries.
Despite the tragic backdrop of the narrative, the marvelous style of Gitanjali Sri carves out a bright, joyous, sensitive, moving, and original novel, which also serves as a timely and urgent protest against the destructive consequences of borders drawn between countries, religions, people, and genders.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Geetanjali Shree
- Publisher
- Ekdoseis Kastanioti
- Publishers
- Kastaniotis Editions
- Type
- Historical Novel
- Cover
- Hardcover
- Number of Pages
- 616
- Release Date
- 25/09/2023
- Publication Date
- 2023
- Dimensions
- 14x20.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789600371215
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