: This novel of Sikh lives during the Partition won the regional Commonwealth Prize 20 years ago #IndiaNEWS It has been nearly two years since the last instalment in this series about lost, forgotten,

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This novel of Sikh lives during the Partition won the regional Commonwealth Prize 20 years ago #IndiaNEWS
It has been nearly two years since the last instalment in this series about lost, forgotten, or underrated books with an Indian connection was published. What better time to return to your bottom shelf and dust off those old volumes than during a global lockdown when you are confined to your home and isolated for weeks? While the world is being ravaged by a deadly virus, natural disasters, and social upheaval, I decide to turn to my favorite companions for solace.If this is to be the year of hindsight, it’s fitting to resume this series with a book that won the Commonwealth Writers Prize 20 years ago for Canada and the Caribbean. Shauna Singh Baldwin’s debut 2000 novel What the Body Remembers has all the ingredients of a literary blockbuster – romance, history, suspense, and political intrigue. Its themes are as relevant today as they were two decades ago or in British India in the first half of the 20th century. But what I fell in love with, just a few pages in, was the lyrical, sensuous prose. What the story revealsThe book begins with the birth of a baby in India under British rule at the turn of the 19th century. The baby, a girl, despite...Read more

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