Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell (Tilted Axis, £12)
“Think of a story as a living being,” writes Geetanjali Shree in her International Booker-winning novel, a 735-page epic whose stories twist, fold and intertwine with “no need for a single stream”. At its centre is Amma, “an old lady nearing eighty” in northern India who has lost her hold on life after her husband’s death, “as though Papa was her only reason for living”.
