Knopf, Toronto, 1999. First edition. Condition: Book is near fine, slightly bowed, dust jacket has edge wear and creasing along spine.

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.

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Shauna Singh Baldwin was born in Montreal and grew up in India. A former polo player and radio producer, she is presently an e-commerce consultant and lives with her Irish-American husband in Milwaukee. She is the author of English Lessons and Other Stories and coauthor of A Foreign Visitor's Survival Guide to North America . Her short stories have been published widely and have won numerous prestigious literary prizes in the United States, Canada, and India. The story "Satya," which was to become What the Body Remembers , was awarded the Saturday Night/CBC Literary Prize and was nominated for a National Magazine Award in Canada. From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Shop-books.ca (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 202001342
Title: What the Body Remembers
Author: Shauna Singh Baldwin
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0676972217
ISBN 13: 9780676972214
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Place of Publication: Toronto, ON
Date Published: 1999
Keywords: used books, discount books; children's books; signed books
Bookseller catalogs: Modern Literature; First Editions;

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