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China room, Sunjeev Sahota ; read by Indira Varma and Antonio Aakeel

eng

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China room

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Sunjeev Sahota ; read by Indira Varma and Antonio Aakeel

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'

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