Tomb of Sand is a book written by Geetanjali Shree, originally in Hindi and translated by Daisy Rockwell. The book won the International Booker Prize in 2022. The book, if I describe it vaguely, is a book about a depressed old woman and her story of overcoming that depression and revisiting her teenage trauma from the India-Pakistan partition. But this is not just a long book. This is a big book, huge. It tells the story of a woman, two women and women in family, women who are not 'women', of men and grown children. It tells the story of a family, of a country, two countries, the border and the old woman. The book is more than 700 pages long and is written in three parts. The first part starts with the old woman facing the wall after she lost her husband. She is grieving, the entire family is grieving. The family tries to pull her back, but she is deliberate and stubborn , saying "nahi hi uthungi" which later turns into "nayi hi uthungi", "I will rise