China Room

Longlisted for Booker Prize 2021, China Room is a literary masterpiece, inspired by real-life events, from award winning author Sunjeev Sahota 'Sunjeev Sahota's writing is the stuff of miracles' - Bryan Washington 'A gorgeous, gripping read' - Kamila Shamsie 'I'm blown away by it. I was gripped from the first page to the last' - Tessa Hadley 'Such a thrilling combination of beauty and heartbreak. It's breathtaking' - Charlotte Mendelson 'An intense drama of classic themes - love, family, survival, and betrayal - told with passion and precision in Sahota's economical, lyrical prose. China Room is a brilliant novel. I won't forget any of these characters' - Adam Foulds A multigenerational novel of love, oppression, trauma and the pursuit of freedom, inspired in part by the author's own family history, China Room twines together the stories of a woman and a man separated by more than half a century but united by blood. Mehar, a young bride in the rural Punjab of 1929, 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 hard at work in the family's 'china room', sequestered from contact with the men.