What the Body Remembers

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