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China Room

`A gorgeous, gripping read` Kamila Shamsie`A stunning novel, I`m blown away by it. I was gripped from the first page to the last.` Tessa Hadley`Such a thrilling combination of beauty and heartbreak. It`s breathtaking.` Charlotte MendelsonA multigenerational novel of love, oppression, trauma and the pursuit of freedom, inspired in part by the author`s own family history, China Room twines together the stories of a woman and a man separated by more than half a century but united by blood. Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, 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.

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