China Room Sunjeev Sahota

Harvill Secker €18.99

Sahota’s beautifully crafted novel dovetails two stories from different eras. A Muslim bride in 1920s Punjab finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage and dares to dream of love and freedom. Seventy years later, a young Punjabi man, newly returned from England, must fight a lonely, uphill battle with heroin addiction. Both characters are prisoners of circumstances but, in their hunger for redemption, become emblematic of the human condition.