what the body remembers by shauna singh baldwin

The novel tells the story of Roop, the second wife of a Sikh landholder whose first wife did not bear children. What the Body Remembers is a highly evocative depiction of the Punjabi Sikh community before and after the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan.

It has been translated into 14 languages won the 2000 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Canada/Caribbean region and was longlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize in Fiction. With the publication of her first novel, What the Body Remembers (1999), Baldwin came to the attention of a larger reading public. She also hosted the independent radio program Sunno! from 1991-94: 'the East-Indian-American radio show where you don't have to be East-Indian to listen!' A keen observer of the clashes of identity and allegiance experienced by those who move between cultures in today's globalized world, Baldwin has been recognized in Canada and internationally for her writing.īaldwin coauthored A Foreign Visitor's Survival Guide to America in 1992 and published her first collection of short fiction, English Lessons and Other Stories, in 1995. Baldwin, who has retained her Canadian citizenship, has worked as an IT consultant, web designer, and restaurateur. She received an MFA from the UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA and an MBA from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she settled in the early 1990s. Shauna Singh Baldwin was born in Montréal, Québec, and raised in India. Shauna Singh Baldwin, writer, poet, playwright, radio producer (b at Montréal 1962).

What the body remembers by shauna singh baldwin