: ‘Tomb of Sand’: Geetanjali Shree’s novel may be the most original and undefinable work of our times #IndiaNEWS How do you begin to talk about Tomb of Sand? You might say, in some (misguided)

@IndiaNEWS

Posted in: #IndiaNEWS

‘Tomb of Sand’: Geetanjali Shree’s novel may be the most original and undefinable work of our times #IndiaNEWS
How do you begin to talk about Tomb of Sand? You might say, in some (misguided) attempt to explain it, that it’s about an octogenarian woman, hiding away after her husband’s death, eventually gaining “a new lease on life� in which she “flies in the face of convention,� whether by spending more time with Rosie Bua or shedding her sarees or reaching out to Pakistan. But what you really want to say is: this is nuts. What you might be trying to say is: butterflies deposit stories in the air, wind blows and currents change, rainbows soar up from the eye’s nook, enigma emanates from the Buddha in the corner, antonyms grasp your expressions and “normal� leaves your senses, as Ma, the heroine of this tale, spins up from gloom and shocks you boom boom dhoom; she shocks you, the writer and the translator, with this prismatic loom – or is it a tomb, abloom?What we’re trying to tell you is: this novel, written in Hindi by Geetanjali Shree and translated into English by Daisy Rockwell, does not believe in “100 percent exactness,� and cannot be described in its entirety with exactitude.‘What else they had lost’Here’s a family: Ma and her children, Bade, The Responsible, and...Read more

Intraday stocks under 50 NSE India Twitter of India

Vote Up Vote Down

Login to post a comment!