Book Review: Tomb of Sand

First book in any Indian language to win the International Booker Prize

Aug 19, 2022

Hello Friends! This is a short in-between post to share with you all my review of this year’s International Booker Prize winner.

My review was just published in a publication called The Unpopulist as part of their series on India’s 75th independence anniversary (August 15th), which is also the anniversary of its troubled Partition.

The book Ret Samadhi was written originally in Hindi by Geetanjali Shree and skillfully translated into English as Tomb of Sand by Daisy Rockwell. It went on to win the International Booker Prize for 2022. That’s a first for a book in any Indian language!

Hope you enjoy the review and/or let me know what you think.

PS. There are no spoilers!

The UnPopulist

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Photo Credit: David Parry This year’s International Booker Prize was presented to Indian writer Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand (Ret Samadhi in original Hindi), translated into English by Daisy Rockwell. This is the first novel in any Indian language that has won the world’s most prestigious literary award…

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