
Longlisted for the Booker Prize, Sunjeev Sahota’s China Room begins in 1929 in rural Punjab where Mehar a young bride is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. She and her sister-in-law were married to three different men at the same ceremony before spending their days working in the family’s china room where they have no contact with the men. Mehar develops a theory as to which of the men is her husband and a passion is ignited that will put more than just her life at risk. In 1999, a young man travels from England to the now-deserted farm, the china room locked. Fleeing from the trauma of his adolescence, the young man spends a painful summer trying to find the strength to return home.