The Sari Shop

8vo. 275pp. Pictorial wraps.

Long-listed for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction. Winner of the 2005 XXIV Grinzane Cavour Prize for Best First Novel, the 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book, and India's prestigious Sahitya Akademi (English) Award in 2006.

Author's acclaimed first book, which explores her hometown, Amritsar, and the class dynamics of India. "An ambitious and compelling début. Bajwa reaches for-and captures-the very soul of India." –Manil Suri, author of The Death of Vishnu