# China Room

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- Book: [China Room](https://www.bookquiver.com/sunjeev-sahota/china-room) ([China Room.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sunjeev-sahota/china-room.md))
- Authors: [Sunjeev Sahota](https://www.bookquiver.com/sunjeev-sahota)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 5 h 57 min
- Narrated by: Indira Varma, Antonio Aakeel
- ISBN: 978-14-7359-310-7
- Published: 2021-05-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 5 h 57 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 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 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 hard 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 painful contemplation and recovery, before finally finding the strength to return 'home'. © Sunjeev Sahota 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021