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The author of the multi-prize-winning The Year of the Runaways returns with a novel of forbidden love that echoes across the generations'China Room is the kind of novel that reminds you why you fell in love with reading' Open Book, BBC Radio 4Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2022Longlist for the Ondaatje Prize 2022
A Daily Telegraph , Guardian and The Times Book of the Year Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. She and her sisters-in-law, married to three brothers in a single ceremony, spend their days at work in the family's 'china room', sequestered from contact with the men. When Mehar develops a theory as to which of them is hers, a passion is ignited that will put more than one life at risk.
Spiralling around Mehar's story is that of a young man who in 1999 travels from England to the now-deserted farm, its 'china room' locked and barred. In enforced flight from the traumas of his adolescence - his experiences of addiction, racism, and estrangement from the culture of his birth - he spends a summer in contemplation and recovery, finally gathering the strength to return home.
Readers love CHINA ROOM:***** Amazing... I could not put it down!
***** The characters jump off the pages... Beautiful
***** Powerful and heart-wrenching
***** Wonderful... I read it in one sitting
***** Gripping storytelling... An easy five stars
About the author
Sunjeev Sahota is the author of
Ours Are the Streets and
The Year of the Runaways, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and won the Encore Prize, the European Union Prize for Literature, and the South Bank Sky Arts Award. He was chosen as one of
Granta's Best Young British Novelists in 2013. He lives in Sheffield.
Summary
The author of the multi-prize-winning The Year of the Runaways returns with a novel of forbidden love that echoes across the generations
'China Room is the kind of novel that reminds you why you fell in love with reading' Open Book, BBC Radio 4
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2022
Longlist for the Ondaatje Prize 2022
A Daily Telegraph , Guardian and The Times Book of the Year
Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. She and her sisters-in-law, married to three brothers in a single ceremony, spend their days at work in the family's 'china room', sequestered from contact with the men. When Mehar develops a theory as to which of them is hers, a passion is ignited that will put more than one life at risk.
Spiralling around Mehar's story is that of a young man who in 1999 travels from England to the now-deserted farm, its 'china room' locked and barred. In enforced flight from the traumas of his adolescence - his experiences of addiction, racism, and estrangement from the culture of his birth - he spends a summer in contemplation and recovery, finally gathering the strength to return home.
Readers love CHINA ROOM:
***** Amazing... I could not put it down!
***** The characters jump off the pages... Beautiful
***** Powerful and heart-wrenching
***** Wonderful... I read it in one sitting
***** Gripping storytelling... An easy five stars
