An Unrestored Woman

An Unrestored Woman

Author: Shobha Rao

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2016-03-15

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1250073839

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“What an astonishing collection! Provoking, ferocious, moving, splendid, generous and essential. I seemed to finish the book in a different world than the one in which I began it.” —Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble and Stranger Things Happen In her mesmerizing debut, Shobha Rao recounts the untold human costs of one of the largest migrations in history. 1947: the Indian subcontinent is partitioned into two separate countries, India and Pakistan. And with one decree, countless lives are changed forever. An Unrestored Woman explores the fault lines in this mass displacement of humanity: a new mother is trapped on the wrong side of the border; a soldier finds the love of his life but is powerless to act on it; an ambitious servant seduces both master and mistress; a young prostitute quietly, inexorably plots revenge on the madam who holds her hostage. Caught in a world of shifting borders, Rao’s characters have reached their tipping points. In paired stories that hail from India and Pakistan to the United States, Italy, and England, we witness the ramifications of the violent uprooting of families, the price they pay over generations, and the uncanny relevance these stories have in our world today.


An Unrestored Woman

An Unrestored Woman

Author: Shobha Rao

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2016-03-15

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0349006466

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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.


An Unrestored Woman

An Unrestored Woman

Author: Shobha Rao

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-03-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1250073820

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A debut of astonishing scope and lyricism: searing, intimate portraits of men and women whose lives have reached tipping points.


In the Crossfire of History

In the Crossfire of History

Author: Lava Asaad

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2022-09-16

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1978830211

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This book incorporates literary works, testimonies, autobiographies, women's resistance movements, and films that add to the conversation on the resilience of women in the global south. The essays question historical accuracy and politics of representation that usually undermine women's role during conflict, and they reevaluate how women participated, challenged, sacrificed, and vehemently opposed war discourses that work on obliterating women's role in shaping resistance movements.


The Best American Short Stories 2015

The Best American Short Stories 2015

Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 054793940X

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Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.


The Woman Who Rode Away And Other Stories

The Woman Who Rode Away And Other Stories

Author: David Herbert Lawrence

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07-08

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9789353446864

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The Visible Woman

The Visible Woman

Author: University of Miami. Library. Zine Collection

Publisher:

Published: 1999*

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13:

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Written by a 50-year-old, this zine discusses age discrimination and the sexual invisibility of middle-aged women. It includes celebratory drawings and descriptions of the aging female body as well as writing about motherhood and menopause.


Women Are Strange, and Other Stories

Women Are Strange, and Other Stories

Author: Frederick William Robinson

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-21

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781358263583

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