Bookmarked Musings: Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand (Translated by Daisy Rockwell) by Ramlal Agarwal
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Ramlal Agarwal shares a literary essay on Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand (Translated by Daisy Rockwell) , the Booker Prize Winner for 2022.
It was heartening that Geetanjali Shree’s Hindi novel, “Ret Samadhi,” translated as “Tomb of Sand” by Daisy Rockwell, won the International Booker Prize in 2022.
Tomb of Sand is an unconventional novel that does away with conventional story, plot, and characters. It is about an 80-year-old widow, unable to walk or talk, lying in bed with her back turned to the world as its central character. She has a statue of Buddha, which she guards as a treasure, a memento of happier times. The entire novel, which spans 697 pages, revolves around her. There are other characters, but they merely serve as satellites.
