![]() Rockwell, who is also a painter and lives in Vermont, US, spoke about how the book came to be. It has also won the English PEN translation award. ![]() “Tomb of Sand” was chosen from a shortlist of six books, with a record number of 135 books being submitted. Shree and Rockwell will split the £50,000 prize money, giving the author and translator equal recognition. Geetanjali Shree wins International Booker Prize for ‘Tomb of Sand’ Set in north India, the novel, originally called “Ret Samadhi”, follows an 80-year-old woman who slips into depression after her husband’s death but gains a new lease of life after striking up a friendship with a hijra and travelling to Pakistan to confront the unresolved trauma of her teenage experiences of Partition.
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