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The blazing novel of love, community and politics, set at the edge of the Peak District, and with a deeply moving family mystery at its heartFrom the twice Booker-nominated author of The Year of the Runaways and China RoomNayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town and on his daily run out to the Peaks. She's come back to the old house at the end of the lane, with her teenaged son, Brandon, though nobody seems to remember much about her...

The blazing novel of love, community and politics, set at the edge of the Peak District, and with a deeply moving family mystery at its heartFrom the twice Booker-nominated author of The Year of the Runaways and China RoomNayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town and on his daily run out to the Peaks. She's come back to the old house at the end of the lane, with her teenaged son, Brandon, though nobody seems to remember much about her...

Longlisted for Booker Prize 2021, China Room is a literary masterpiece, inspired by real-life events, from award winning author Sunjeev Sahota 'Sunjeev Sahota's writing is the stuff of miracles' - Bryan Washington 'A gorgeous, gripping read' - Kamila Shamsie 'I'm blown away by it. I was gripped from the first page to the last' - Tessa Hadley 'Such a thrilling combination of beauty and heartbreak. It's breathtaking' - Charlotte Mendelson 'An in...

1929 im ländlichen Punjab: Drei sehr junge Frauen werden in einer Zeremonie mit drei Brüdern verheiratet. Nachts trifft je eine ihren Ehemann in kompletter Dunkelheit, in der Hoffnung, einen Sohn zu zeugen. Tagsüber verrichten die Frauen ihre Pflichten, eingesperrt im Porzellanzimmer, in dem die Aussteuer ihrer Schwiegermutter Mai lagert. Als Mehar sich in einen der Brüder verliebt, wird eine gefährliche Leidenschaft entfacht, die mehr als ein...

1929 im ländlichen Punjab: Drei sehr junge Frauen werden in einer Zeremonie mit drei Brüdern verheiratet. Nachts trifft je eine ihren Ehemann in kompletter Dunkelheit, in der Hoffnung, einen Sohn zu zeugen. Tagsüber verrichten die Frauen ihre Pflichten, eingesperrt im Porzellanzimmer, in dem die Aussteuer ihrer Schwiegermutter Mai lagert. Als Mehar sich in einen der Brüder verliebt, wird eine gefährliche Leidenschaft entfacht, die mehr als ein...

A gorgeous, gripping read." -Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire "Cements [Sahota's] place in a vibrant literary canon alongside Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie, Mohsin Hamid, Hari Kunzru, and others." -BookPage A transfixing novel about two unforgettable characters seeking to free themselves-one from the expectations of women in early 20th century Punjab, and the other from the weight of life in the contemporary Indian diasporaMehar, a young b...

1929. At a farm in Punjab, northern India, three girls are married to three brothers in one ceremony. For weeks afterwards, segregated from the men in the 'china room', heavily veiled, and meeting their husbands only under cover of darkest night, none of the girls is entirely sure which brother is hers. Mehar, the youngest of the three, is determined to find out, and while her efforts lead her into overwhelming love, her story of misplaced ide...

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Burns quietly but fiercely from first page to last-a gorgeous, gripping read." -Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire "Sunjeev Sahota's writing is the stuff of miracles…A propulsive dream, intricately wrought." -Bryan Washington, author of MemorialA transfixing novel about two unforgettable characters seeking to free themselves-one from the expectations of women in early 20th century Punjab, and the other from the weight of life in the contempor...

Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. She and her sisters-in-law, married to three brothers in a single ceremony, spend their days hard at work in the family's 'china room', sequestered from contact with the men. When Mehar develops a theory as to which of them is hers, a passion is ignited that will put more than one life at risk.Spiralling around Mehar's story is that of a young man...

Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, the breathtaking story of a woman and a man in pursuit of freedom'THE STUFF OF MIRACLES' Bryan Washington'A GORGEOUS, GRIPPING READ' Kamila Shamsie'I'M BLOWN AWAY BY IT' Tessa Hadley'NOVELS THIS GOOD ARE RARE' Daily Telegraph Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. She and her sisters-in-law, married to three brothers in a single ceremony, spend the...

Un anno in Inghilterra, quattro stagioni travolgenti vissute attraverso gli occhi di tre ragazzi indiani in cerca di un futuro diverso: l'Inghilterra è una promessa, il passato un peso da cui liberarsi. Dietro di loro lasciano un Paese in radicale cambiamento, sconvolto dai conflitti civili e troppo spesso governato da un codice morale pieno di pregiudizi. Costretti dalle circostanze a condividere la stessa casa di lavoratori irregolari nella ...

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Sahota knows how to light up a scene, how to make you stay up late at night. A brilliant and beautiful novel' GuardianTochi, Avtar and Randeep have fled India for a new home in England, where, bound by secrets, haunted by history, and in pursuit of hope, they try to find a toehold in a country that seems utterly foreign. Tochi and Avtar have no real papers, but Randeep is the lucky one, married to Narinder, his visa-wife living on the other si...

Short-listed for the 2015 Man Booker PrizeThe Guardian: The Best Novels of 2015The Independent: Literary Fiction of the Year 2015From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and Man Booker Prize nominee Sunjeev Sahota-a sweeping, urgent contemporary epic, set against a vast geographical and historical canvas, astonishing for its richness and texture and scope, and for the utter immersiveness of its reading experience.Three young men, a...

Sahota knows how to light up a scene, how to make you stay up late at night. A brilliant and beautiful novel' GuardianTochi, Avtar and Randeep have fled India for a new home in England, where, bound by secrets, haunted by history, and in pursuit of hope, they try to find a toehold in a country that seems utterly foreign. Tochi and Avtar have no real papers, but Randeep is the lucky one, married to Narinder, his visa-wife living on the other si...

In the north of England, a group of young Indian immigrants struggle to begin something new-to support their families, to build their futures, to show their worth, to escape their pasts. An epic for our times, The Year of the Runaways is a stunning work of fiction that explores what it means and what it costs to make a new life, the capaciousness of the human spirit, and the power of humanity in the face of unspeakable suffering.

Sunjeev Sahota's Ours are the Streets is a poignant and powerful story of political radicalization.When Imtiaz Raina leaves England for the first time, to bury his father on his family's land near Lahore, he exchanges his uncertain life in Sheffield for a road that leads to the mountains of Kashmir and Afghanistan. Once back in Yorkshire, he writes through the night to his young wife Becka and baby daughter Noor, and tries to explain, in a sto...