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An Unrestored Woman : And Other Stories, Paperback / softback Book

An Unrestored Woman : And Other Stories Paperback / softback

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In An Unrestored Woman, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the lives of ordinary women and men, leaving ripples of sorrow through time and space.

Each couplet of stories spans the Indian subcontinent, from refugee camps and torched trains to the spacious verandas of the British Raj, and billows into the wider world.

An old woman recounts the murdering of what was most precious to her, and the many small cuts that led her to that act.

A girl forced into prostitution wields patience as deftly as a weapon, and manages to escape her fate.

An Indian servant falls in love with his employer, and spins a twisted web of deceit. The characters in these fearless stories stumble - occasionally towards love, more often towards survival - and find that history, above all, is their truest and greatest opponent. And what emerges, in the midst of newly erected barriers, boundaries, and nations, is a journey into the centre of the only place that matters - the human heart.

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