![]() ![]() Can it be restored? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Download Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory by Aanchal Malhotra in PDF EPUB format complete free. ![]() Its power and poignancy will haunt the reader.Shortlisted for the British Academy's 2019 Al-Rodhan PrizeA Hindustan Times 'India at 70' bookShortlisted for the Hindu Lit for Life Non-Fiction PrizeShortlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize Seventy years on, the Partition of India fades from memory. ![]() They uncover a rich tapestry of pain and rupture, but also of hope and connection - in belonging through belongings, and identities reforged.From a string of pearls to a young woman's poetry, this extraordinary book gives voice to the voiceless, restoring the everyday to a great drama of the twentieth century. Through the possessions saved by her own great-grandparents as they fled their homes, she discovers the unique power of such objects: to unlock the secrets of a colossal human migration, and a life that once was.Remnants of Partition is a remarkable alternative history, telling the family stories hidden within items carried between the new India and Pakistan, amid chaos and violence. The book is all of 386 pages and my target was to complete it by the last Sunday of April which was the Swapbook meet day where the subject for discussion was books based on Memoirs or Memories. The emotion and trauma of the Partition are buried deep, but Aanchal Malhotra has found a way to recover them. Remnants of a Aanchal Malhotra.I began reading this book somewhere around the mid of April. ![]()
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