China room
(eAudiobook)

Downloadable eAudiobook.

Fiction.

Duration: 05:58:06.

Read by Antonio Aakeel.

Read by Indira Varma.

Mehar, a young bride in rural Punjab in 1929, 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 hard 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 painful contemplation and recovery, before finally finding the strength to return 'home'.

Adult.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.