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by Shauna Singh. Baldwin

Shauna Singh Baldwin has created very real and flawed characters-a fact that I love. The title of the book is most apt in this age where we are increasingly appreciating the truth of what the body remembers.
Shauna Singh Baldwin has created very real and flawed characters-a fact that I love. Satya, Sardarji's first wife, is bitter after the embarrassment of not delivering a child after many years of marriage.
Shauna Singh Baldwin was born in Montreal and grew up in India. She is the author of English Lessons and Other Stories and the novels What The Body Remembers and The Tiger Claw. Her short fiction, poetry, and essays hav. ore about Shauna Singh Baldwin. About Shauna Singh Baldwin. In some bookclubs, readers have discussed What the Body Remembers as "a feminist book" and others as historical fiction - "a Partition novel" - and of course it is both, assuming you define feminism as the radical idea that a woman is a person. Some readers get the analogy between Sardarji’s marriage and the larger political scene at once, and for some it has to be pointed out.
What the Body Remembers book. It's very hard to read but Shauna Singh Baldwin treats the difficult material with incredible tenderness and empathy. In fact, you'd think that seeing all the destruction from a Sikh point of view (my first experience of this POV) would encourage feelings of blame or disgust. But that's not the effect at all.
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Shauna Singh Baldwin. A multiple award winning writer, Shauna Singh Baldwin has written several books and her fiction and poems are widely published in literary magazines. Literary Fiction, India, Women Fiction, Canadian Author. From the author of What the Body Remembers, an extraordinary story of love and espionage, cultural tension and displacement, inspired by the life of Noor Inayat Khan (code name Madeleine ), who worked against the Occupation after the Nazi invasion of France. When Noor Khan’s father, a teacher of mystical Sufism, dies, Noor is forced to bow, along with her mother, sister and brother, to her uncle’s religious literalism and ideas on feminine propriety.
In What the Body Remembers, with her sharp focus on women in such turmoil, Baldwin offers us a moveing and engaging look at 20th-century India's most troubled years.
Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers begins and ends with rebirth-an apt metaphor, perhaps, for the .
Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers begins and ends with rebirth-an apt metaphor, perhaps, for the tragedy of Indian partition that forms the backdrop. As the self-proclaimed Shauna Singh Baldwin fan, I may be slightly biased but this book definitely made an impact on me because I thought about the storyline and the characters for days afterward and has made me yearn for a sequel!
Shauna Singh Baldwin (born 1962) is a Canadian-American novelist of Indian descent.
Shauna Singh Baldwin (born 1962) is a Canadian-American novelist of Indian descent. Her 2000 novel What the Body Remembers won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canadian/Caribbean Region), and her 2004 novel The Tiger Claw was nominated for the Giller Prize. Her second short-story collection, We Are Not in Pakistan, was released in Canada in 2007. Baldwin was born in Montreal, Quebec. She currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
by Shauna Singh Baldwin. Told through the stories of two Punjabi women, Satya and Roop, who are both married to a rich land owner
by Shauna Singh Baldwin. Told through the stories of two Punjabi women, Satya and Roop, who are both married to a rich land owner. Their lives are totally disrupted by the political unrest that follows independence, when they realise that their land and home are on the wrong side of the divide. A sad and poignant story, which I very much enjoyed. Find similar books Profile. Roop's tale draws the reader immediately into her world, making the exotic familiar and the family's story startlingly universal, but What the Body Remembers is also very much Satya's story. She is mortified and angry when Sardarji takes Roop for a wife, a woman whose low status Satya takes as an affront to her position, and she adopts desperate measures to maintain her place in society and in her husband's heart.