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What the Body Remembers (Audiobook)

What the Body Remembers (Audiobook)

Duration:  5h Abridged
Published: January 01, 2000
BTC Audiobooks  /  Fiction  /  Novels
Audio Cassette:   9780864922786    $28.95

For the first time — simultaneous book publication, radio broadcast, and Between the Covers Collection audiobook release! What the Body Remembers is set in the state of Punjab just before Partition.

This stunning first novel tells the story of Roop, the young and beautiful second wife of a wealthy Sikh, kind yet uncompromisingly traditional. Domestic politics become as dangerous as national politics, and, like the larger Partition, the division of the household creates new anguish. Finally Roop discovers in herself the self-preserving ambition of the woman who was her mortal enemy and is now almost her guiding spirit.
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Author

Shauna Singh Baldwin’s first novel, What the Body Remembers, was published in 1999 by Knopf Canada, Transworld UK, Doubleday USA, and (as an audiobook) by Goose Lane Editions. It received the 2000 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book (Canada-Caribbean region) and has been translated into fourteen languages. Her second novel The Tiger Claw was a finalist for Canada's Giller Prize 2004. Shauna is the author of English Lessons and Other Stories and coauthor of A Foreign Visitor’s Survival Guide to America. Her awards include the 1995 Writer’s Union of Canada Award for short prose and the 1997 Canadian Literary Award. English Lessons received the 1996 Friends of American Writers Award.

A former radio producer and ecommerce consultant, her fiction and poems are widely published in literary magazines and anthologies in the US, Canada, and India. She has served on several juries and teaches short courses in creative writing. Shauna holds an MBA from Marquette University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. We Are Not in Pakistan: Stories was published by Goose Lane Editions in 2007. Shauna’s third novel, The Selector of Souls, was published by Knopf Canada in September 2012. Reviews, reading schedule, and interviews at: www.ShaunaSinghBaldwin.com.