![]() Satya and Roop's enforced female partnership - by turns warring, sisterly, tender, rivalrous - forms a bitter axis around which the tragedy of this novel unfolds. Sardarji, without hesitation or consultation, has found himself a youthful second wife, Roop (meaning body or form), a village girl whose mother died in childbirth, and whose father is deep in debt to him. Satya (whose name means Truth) has failed to give her well-born respected husband, Sardarji, a child. What the Body Remembers takes place in Rawalpindi, in the Indian state of the Punjab, in 1937 amid the mourning and mounting tension that precedes partition. ![]() Satya and Roop's enforced female partnership - by turns warring. ![]() ![]()
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