BY Harsimran Kaur  ON  May 13 , 2022  IN BOOK REVIEWS, Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree-Fiction

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Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree book review

I am not made or unmade by the unpalatable pores formed by the recalcitrant present but by the indissoluble past which is a now a peripatetic traveller taking a descent in my fragile body. Sometimes, it seems as a fallacy that I wish to live with as a concomitant legacy of unaccomplished dreams.

Our past is a vision-distorted, emotions-ransacked, longing-subjugated and a life-lived and unlived. But, we still move on creating our own carapsse to belong to a world unknown to many. Amma too lived a life of a mother, sister, wife, grand-mother and a woman who desired the past to unfold the invariable discretions of her heart. A stout, tiny woman, Amma, with her frail and emancipated body embarks on a journey to the Land of Pure, “Pakistan” to detangle the shards of the past and partition. Crestfallen after her husband’s demise, the enormity of passive living is a “hot-potato” to her. She looms a thread to string a staccato of effervescent blooms; placidly peeling off the layer of “frivolous identity issues” by being friends with a transgender woman “Rosie”—the camaraderie inconspicuously despised by Amma’s daughter, Beti.  

The book “Tomb of Sand” by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell is a perspective towards life to be sanguine to not what one deserves but what one desires. The author convincingly talks about death, separation, belongingness, love and relationships, and conjoins each of these paradigms to our idiosyncratic patterns of life. Charred by the tempestuous perfidy of life, it is the courage and belief in a vision that let’s go off the rudimental camouflage of perishable suffering and seethe. Amma too sees a vision and carries the fragments of the past to reach a destination in present, where her future bears no traces of an unchaperoned legacy of emotions.

Other characters in the book too invoke a sense of their life’s preferences and prejudices—a humorous unbuckle from the tangled impositions of life. Bade, the eldest son is a hubristic maelstrom of patriarchy who rejoices to Amma clad in soignee “saris” and not the Spartan overflowing gowns, which to him depress the sensibilities of a woman. Bahu is a notorious wayfarer of improbabilities. The opinionated “Beti” provides “Amma” a liberated persual of her visionary dispositions. The ballet of characters is a rhythmic collision of thoughts that run in despair and dampness of their own insecurities.

TAKE AWAY

It’s hard for a character to speak for itself. It proclaims its existence by imperceptible moorings of uncertainties and hidden desires only known to the inner soul. The intemperate reflexologies of life have a profound effect on the mental satire which seems in equilibrium but is distorted and disparaged by the tedious inequities. Amma feels trapped and her life a distorted deluge of impending anomalies. She rebukes the cultural assemblage of being a woman and trots a path to leave behind the peace she bargained for the tumultuous rampage of her soul.

Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell are a master of words elucidating the fragility of life.

Life is like sand – if enclosed in the fist causes a pricking itch, and if left to dry off the palm leaves a scaled emptiness emblazoned over what could have been happiness. 

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abhinav
abhinav
1 year ago

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Rohit Aggrawal
1 year ago

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1 year ago

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