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Tomb of Sand (Paperback)
Geetanjali Shree; Translated by Daisy Rockwell
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R555
Discovery Miles 5 550
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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When a bomb explodes in a university cafe, nineteen students are
killed. The Empty Space begins with the identification of these
slain students. Slowly, each individual is claimed and taken away
for a proper burial by their mourning family members. The final
mother to enter the cafe identifies the nineteenth body as her
eighteen-year-old son and brings him home in a casket. Not only
does she bring home her dead son, though, but also the sole
survivor of the blast, a three-year-old boy. By a strange quirk of
fate, after the explosion he is found lying in a small empty space,
alive and breathing. The Empty Space chronicles the memories of the
boy dead, the story of the boy brought home, and the cataclysmic
crossing of life and death.
The history of walls - as a way to keep people in or out - is also
the history of people managing to get around, over and under them.
From the Berlin Wall and the Mexico-US border, to the barbed wire
fences of Bangladesh's refugee camps, the short stories in this
anthology explore the barriers that have sought to divide
communities and nations, and their traumatic effects on people's
lives and histories. At a time when more walls are being built than
are being brought down, All Walls Collapse brings together writing
from across national, ethnic and linguistic borders, challenging
the political impulse to separate and segregate, and celebrating
the role of literature in traversing division.
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Khali Jagah
Geetanjali Shree
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R563
Discovery Miles 5 630
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The mother who enters the cafe last to identify the nineteenth body
brings home her dead eighteen-year-old son packed in a coffin, as
well as the sole survivor of the blast, a three-year-old boy, who
by a strange quirk of fate, is found lying in a small empty space,
alive and breathing. That Empty Space recounts the memories of the
boy gone, the story of the boy brought home, the crossing of their
life and death and the mixing up of their identities.
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