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What the Body Remembers

Shauna Singh Baldwin

Paperback | Pages: 471 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 2566 Users | 184 Reviews

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Title	:	What the Body Remembers
Author	:	Shauna Singh Baldwin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 471 pages
Published	:	January 16th 2001 by Anchor (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Cultural. India. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Canada. Asia

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Out of the rich culture of India and the brutal drama of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women married to the same man.

Roop is a young girl whose mother has died and whose father is deep in debt. So
she is elated to learn she is to become the second wife of a wealthy Sikh landowner in a union beneficial to both. For Sardaji’s first wife, Satya, has failed to bear him children. Roop believes that she and Satya, still very much in residence, will be friends. But the relationship between the older and younger woman is far more complex. And, as India lurches toward independence, Sardarji struggles to find his place amidst the drastic changes.

Meticulously researched and beautifully written, What the Body Remembers is at once poetic, political, feminist, and sensual.

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Original Title:	What the Body Remembers
ISBN:	0385496052 (ISBN13: 9780385496056)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	India,1947
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2000), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Caribbean and Canada (2000)

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Set in mid-20th-century India before it was partitioned. It was apparently trying to set up the tentions among Sikhs, Hindus, & Moslems, but used so much arcane terminology & assumed knowledge of cultural practices that I found it too difficult to follow.

Finally, I finished reading this. For my book club's India journey, we read this for "Northern India". This novel is set in Punjab and focuses on a Sikh family. I've never encountered such a setting before so that was interesting. But boy was this book just as wordy as our "Southern India" book choice, The Forgotten Daughter. 'What the Body Remembers' is set right before the Partition of British India. We meet Roop, a teenage girl from a Punjab Sikh family, who is quite naive and materialistic

The reader/writer connection wasn't successful for me in the early third of this book -- there were too many times I found myself thinking about the writing style rather than the story. Part of the reason for that was a number of what one of my favourite creative writing teachers called the "editorial lump" -- where the writer steps out of the story and catches us up on world events, philosophy -- anything but the story. Towards the end, I was totally over that, as I realized how difficult it

A lyrical and lengthy reflection on India in the time of the Partition, told through the eyes of people who had almost no influence on India's history during that time -- Sikhs and women. Sardarji is a wealthy Sikh landowner in Punjab. He is UK-educated as an engineer and rescues his family estates from bankrupcy and inefficiency. His first wife is Satya, an articulate and confident woman with a sharp mind and a sharp tongue. Satya is well-suited to Sardarji, they love and respect each other,

Roop, one of Bachan Singhs two daughters, grows up without her mother. Her father, a respected however not-too-well-off a person in the village, does his best in bringing up his daughters and son.Roop grows up believing that she is destined to a better life. When Bachan Singh gets a proposal from one of the wealthiest men in the village for his daughter, he is delighted, only to be disappointed when he realizes that it is not for one of the wealthy mans sons. but for an already married relative

I've just put the book down and will need some time to process everything. But as you can see, I've given it 5 stars and strong recommendations to my friends to read this beautiful elegy to undivided Punjab.This is a book that takes time to sink in. The horrors of the mass migration are in these pages, the riots, rape, and village burning. It's very hard to read but Shauna Singh Baldwin treats the difficult material with incredible tenderness and empathy. In fact, you'd think that seeing all the

I was bored to death