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  • An Unrestored Woman

  • By: Shobha Rao
  • Narrated by: Neela Vaswani
  • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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In her mesmerizing debut, Shobha Rao recounts the untold human costs of one of the largest migrations in history.

It's 1947. The Indian subcontinent is partitioned into two separate countries, India and Pakistan. And with one decree, countless lives are changed forever. An Unrestored Woman explores the fault lines in this mass displacement of humanity: A new mother is trapped on the wrong side of the border; a soldier finds the love of his life but is powerless to act on it; an ambitious servant seduces both master and mistress; a young prostitute quietly, inexorably plots revenge on the madam who holds her hostage. Caught in a world of shifting borders, Rao's characters have reached their tipping points.

In paired stories that hail from India and Pakistan to the United States, Italy, and England, we witness the ramifications of the violent uprooting of families, the price they pay over generations, and the uncanny relevance these stories have in our world today.

©2016 Shobha Rao (P)2016 Macmillan Audio
Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories Pakistan Hinduism
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Woven chapters

It took me a while to realise that these were individual stories sometimes woven together, sometimes not. Transporting and vivid from the closeness of partition to more recent times.

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