A story of forbidden love that echoes across generations - from the prize-winning author of The Year of the Runaways.
A gorgeous, gripping read Kamila Shamsie
A multi-generational masterpiece Daily Mail
* A Book of the Year for The Times, Guardian and Daily Telegraph *
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 flees from England to the deserted sun-scorched farm. Can a summer spent learning of love and of his family s past give him the strength for the journey home?
Readers love China Room
***** I didn t want it to end
***** What. A. Book.
***** Beautifully crafted...a story as old as time
***** A novel of thwarted loves
Shortlisted for the 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize
Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize
Longlisted for the 2022 Walter Scott Prize
Longlisted for the 2021 Ondaatje Prize
Amazing storytelling...gripping and very moving BBC Radio 4, Open Book
I m blown away by it Tessa Hadley
The stuff of miracles Bryan Washington
Moving...fresh and nourishing The Times
About the Author
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.
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