num_pages: 540
description: Told through the stories of two Punjabi women, Shauna Singh Baldwin's award-winning novel is a rich and multi-layered portrait of India's bloody struggle into independence. 'Taking as its subject the huge and complicated canvas of pre- and post-Indian independence from 1937-47, What the Body Remembers is set in a Punjab seething with political unrest; but its themes and emotional heart are ancient ones of love, jealousy, infertility and religious fury, cunningly dovetailed into the saga of one Sikh family...' --Elizabeth Buchan, The Times
language: English
title: What the Body Remembers
titlecomplete: What the Body Remembers
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Asia, India, Historical Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada, Indian Literature, Historical
ratings_count: 2861
places: India
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in Caribbean and Canada
publisher: Harper Collins India