An Unrestored Woman: And Other Stories

An Unrestored Woman: And Other StoriesIn An Unrestored Woman, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the lives of ordinary women and men, leaving ripples of sorrow through time and space. Each couplet of stories spans the Indian subcontinent, from refugee camps and torched trains to the spacious verandas of the British Raj, and billows into the wider world. An old woman recounts the murdering of what was most precious to her, and the many small cuts that

up to the present day

Polly Cameron is happy being thirty-five and celibate

they lost weight by applying what they know best - economics - to their waistlines

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But in today's hypercompetitive world

Caroline accepts the challenge

Cosmopolitans

Reunited with her best friend Fin - who has been forgotten all over again - Marrill must make the treacherous trek to the impossible world of Monerva and uncover the secrets of its long-lost wish machine

Colours of Taste

she escapes the palace for the war-torn streets of Alexandria

and the challenges the world faces in the 21st century with Abraham Skorka

The homes of key tastemakers are featured including Le Corbusier