The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters

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  • Balli Kaur Jaswal
  • Author:  Balli Kaur Jaswal
  • Collection:  "Kaleidoscope" Collection
  • Year: 19-08-2019
  • Translator from English: Petya Petkova
  • Availability:  In Stock
  • Product Code:  2371-01
  • SKU: 14.0121
  • ISBN: 978-619-01-0487-2
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The British-born Punjabi Shergill sisters—Rajni, Jezmeen, and Shirina—were never close and barely got along growing up, and now as adults, have grown even further apart. Rajni, a school principal is a stickler for order. Jezmeen, a thirty-year-old struggling actress, fears her big break may never come. Shirina, the peacemaking "good" sister married into wealth and enjoys a picture-perfect life.

On her deathbed, their mother voices one last wish: that her daughters will make a pilgrimage together to the Golden Temple in Amritsar to carry out her final rites. After a trip to India with her mother long ago, Rajni vowed never to return. But she’s always been a dutiful daughter, and cannot, even now, refuse her mother’s request. Jezmeen has just been publicly fired from her television job, so the trip to India is a welcome break to help her pick up the pieces of her broken career. Shirina’s in-laws are pushing her to make a pivotal decision about her married life; time away will help her decide whether to meekly obey, or to bravely stand up for herself for the first time.

Arriving in India, these sisters will make unexpected discoveries about themselves, their mother, and their lives—and learn the real story behind the trip Rajni took with their Mother long ago—a momentous journey that resulted in Mum never being able to return to India again.

The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters is a female take on the Indian travel narrative. "I was curious about how different the trip would be if it were undertaken by women, who are vulnerable to different dangers in a male-dominated society," Balli Kaur Jaswal writes. "I also wanted to explore the tensions between tradition and modernity in immigrant communities, and particularly how those tensions play out among women like these sisters, who are the first generation to be raised outside of India."

Powerful, emotionally evocative, and wonderfully atmospheric, The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters is a charming and thoughtful story that illuminates the bonds of family, sisterhood, and heritage that tether us despite our differences. Funny and heartbreaking, it is a reminder of the truly important things we must treasure in our lives.

About the Author

Balli Kaur Jaswal

Balli Kaur Jaswal

Balli Kaur Jaswal is a Singaporean novelist, having family roots in Punjab, region. Balli was born in Singapore and grew up living in countries such as Japan, Russia, the Philippines, Australia and ... Read more

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Tags: Women's Fiction, Modern Novels

Specification
Year 19-08-2019
Translator from English: Petya Petkova
Pages 336
Size 140/215 mm
Weight 0.42 kg
Collection "Kaleidoscope" Collection
Cover Type Paperback
Genre Women's Fiction, Modern Novels

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