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Title: China Room: {LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021}
Author: SAHOTA SUNJEEV
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 03/05/2022
Imprint: VINTAGE UK
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
Description: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021, a thrilling and heartbreaking story of love, family, survival and betrayal from the prize-winning author of The Year of the Runaways Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021, a thrilling and heartbreaking story of love, family, survival and betrayal. ‘A gorgeous, gripping read’ Kamila Shamsie ‘I’m blown away by it’ Tessa Hadley ‘The stuff of miracles’ Bryan Washington Mehar, a young bride in rural Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. It is 1929, and she and her sisters-in-law – married to three brothers in a single ceremony – spend their days hard at work on the family farm, sequestered from contact with the men. When Mehar develops a theory as to which of them is hers, a passion is ignited that will put 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 deserted sun-scorched farm. In flight from the traumas of his adolescence, he spends the summer in painful recovery, gathering strength for the journey home. ‘Amazing storytelling…gripping and very moving’ BBC Radio 4, Open Book ‘A rare novel that makes you pause in its beauty’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Engrossing, intricate…devastating’ Literary Review
Review: Sunjeev Sahota’s writing is the stuff of miracles. Emotional and heartrending, China Room juggles questions of love, debt, and what it means to build a home alongside the history that carries us. China Room is a propulsive dream, intricately wrought, and Sahota is a maestro. — Bryan Washington, author of LOT and MEMORIAL
China Room is a rare novel that makes you pause in its beauty. — Francesca Carington * Sunday Telegraph, *Novel of the Week* *
Sahota is a truly original novelist, his prose sparingly precise in its beauty, steeped in kindness and deep humanity. — Ruth Scurr * TLS *
With poise, restraint and deep intelligence, Sahota feeds us big, difficult themes – segregation and freedom, revolution and empire – in a form that is unsweetened, fresh and nourishing. Surely this, his third novel, will propel him up the shortlists to the prizewinning status he deserves. — Melissa Katsoulis * The Times, ‘This Book Will Win Prizes’ *
An extraordinarily gifted writer… Sahota’s ability to shine a phrase is not bought for the usual steep formalist price, at the expense of simplicity, intimate feeling, and solid representation. He’s both camera and painter, in a literary world that often separates those novelistic tasks. — James Wood * New Yorker *
Author Biography: Sunjeev Sahota is the author of Ours Are the Streets and The Year of the Runaways, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and won the Encore Prize, the European Union Prize for Literature, and the South Bank Sky Arts Award. He was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 2013. He lives in Sheffield.
ISBN: 9781784706364
Pages: 320