Tomb of sand / Geetanjali Shree ; translated by Daisy Rockwell.

Originally published as Reta-samādhi in Hindi by Rajkashan Prakashan, 2018

Shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.

"An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at
the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new
lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of
convention - including striking up a friendship with a
hijra (trans) woman - confuses her bohemian daughter, who
is used to thinking of herself as the more 'modern' of the
two. At the older woman's insistence they travel back to
Pakistan, simultaneously confronting the unresolved trauma
of her teenage experiences of Partition, and re-evaluating
what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a woman, a
feminist."--Publisher.

Translated from Hindi.