Publication Date: 06/05/2021 ISBN: 9781911215851 Category:

China Room

Sunjeev Sahota

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 06/05/2021 ISBN: 9781911215851 Category:
Hardback

£16.99

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Description

The author of the multi-prize-winning The Year of the Runaways returns with a novel of forbidden love that echoes across the generations

‘China Room is the kind of novel that reminds you why you fell in love with reading’ Open Book, BBC Radio 4

Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2022
Longlist for the Ondaatje Prize 2022

A Daily Telegraph , Guardian and The Times Book of the Year

Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. She and her sisters-in-law, married to three brothers in a single ceremony, spend their days at work in the family’s ‘china room’, 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 travels from England to the now-deserted farm, its ‘china room’ locked and barred. In enforced flight from the traumas of his adolescence – his experiences of addiction, racism, and estrangement from the culture of his birth – he spends a summer in contemplation and recovery, finally gathering the strength to return home.

Readers love CHINA ROOM:
***** Amazing… I could not put it down!
***** The characters jump off the pages… Beautiful
***** Powerful and heart-wrenching
***** Wonderful… I read it in one sitting
***** Gripping storytelling… An easy five stars

Publisher Review

[With] poise, restraint and deep intelligence... Sahota feeds us big, difficult themes - segregation and freedom, revolution and empire - in a form that is unsweetened, fresh and nourishing. Surely this, his third novel, will propel him up the shortlists to the prizewinning status he deserves -- Melissa Katsoulis * The Times * Sunjeev Sahota's writing is the stuff of miracles. Emotional and heartrending, China Room juggles questions of love, debt, and what it means to build a home alongside the history that carries us. Sahota navigates the worlds between where we believe we belong, where we end up, and the choices we make to close the distance along the way, with humanity, precision, and grace. China Room is a propulsive dream, intricately wrought, and Sahota is a maestro. * Bryan Washington, author of LOT and MEMORIAL * Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways propelled him on to the 2015 Booker shortlist. His latest, China Room, a multi-generational masterpiece...could well see him nominated again -- Stephanie Cross * Daily Mail, *Books to Look Out For 2021* *

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