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Novel about Indian woman who confronts partition trauma in Pakistan wins Booker Prize

  • 'Tomb of Sand' is a family saga set in the shadow of the partition of the Indian Subcontinent in 1947
  • Novel is the first in an Indian language to win the prize and first in Hindi to even secure a nomination
By Sanjay Kumar ·

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