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It evoked a feeling in her”of silence and freedom, of riding a bicycle on a dirt track cutting through fields in the absence of her parents, Nanaki, a fiercely sensitive young woman, is brought up by her grandparents in a quaint Chandigarh neighbourhood. She grows up to be an artist and a Professor in an art college. As Nanaki goes through the motions of an idyllic childhood and a difficult teenageove, her experiences play out against a haunting backdrop of Partition and her beeji's turbulent personal history. Nanaki is brought face to face with the dark underbelly of contemporary Punjab when she takes up the cause of a consummate embroidery artist against a corrupt system while also being privy to the heart-breaking stories of two women in her immediate vicinity. Through it all, it is her Sufi bearings that sustain her. Meanwhile, over many motorcycle jaunts to the tiny hill-town of ka SA ul I, Nanaki findsove in himmat, an architect with his own share of personal tragedy and a scarred childhood. Meditative, rooted inocation yet filtered through nostalgia, in theand of theovers is a masterfully woven fable with interlocking tales that explore struggle,oss,onging andove with brilliant insight anduminous prose.

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Sakoon Singh read English Literature at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and Panjab University. A recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship, she currently teaches Literature and Cultural Studies in Chandigarh.

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