An Unrestored Woman Consignment With razor-sharp precision and psychological

With razor-sharp precision and psychological acuity

beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris

Savour the familiar scent of clove and tobacco … for this is the aroma of Indonesia’s history

violent Eurasian century

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An Unrestored Woman Consignment With razor-sharp precision and psychologicalWhat 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.