Inheritance
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In 1971, teenaged Amrit disappears from her house in the middle of the night. Although her absence is brief, she returns a different person, and the event causes fissures to develop that threaten to unravel her traditional Punjabi Sikh family.ĀOver the next two decades, as Singaporeās political, social and cultural landscapes change, the familyās attempts to cope with the shifts lead to some disastrous consequences. How do we confront our legacies, and, when necessary, how do we accept change?Ā InheritanceĀ is a universal story of family, identity and belonging.
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āInheritance is a moving and assured debut, a perfectly balanced allegory, where the individual struggles of a family are underscored by the larger picture of nationbuilding and national identity. Balli Kaur Jaswal writes with compassion, intelligence and an empathetic eye, transporting the reader effortlessly through time and between points of view.ā
āLeanne Hall, author of This Is Shyness
āJaswalās wonderful debut didnāt merely transport me to a country I knew nothing about, or introduce me to a family the likes of which Iād never meet. She made me long for her Singapore like a lost home, and miss her characters like departed friends. What an extraordinary thing for a novel to do.ā
āAlexander Yates, author of Moondogs
āA vivid, compelling tale of selfhood, fraught blood ties and the devastating weight of change.ā
āMeg Mundell, author of Black Glass -
Balli Kaur Jaswal is the recipient of The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist Award 2014 for Inheritance, which inspired a film adaptation directed by K. Rajagopal, called Lizard on the Wall. Her second novel, Sugarbread, was shortlisted for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize and the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize, while her most recent book, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick in 2018. Born in Singapore and raised in Japan, Russia and the Philippines, she studied creative writing in the United States, and has received writing fellowships from the University of East Anglia and Nanyang Technological University. Her fourth novel, The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters, will be published in the USA and UK in 2019.
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- Description
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- About the Author
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Look insideĀ the bookĀ Ā |Ā Ā Get the E-BookĀ Ā |Ā Ā Ā Listen to the audiobook
In 1971, teenaged Amrit disappears from her house in the middle of the night. Although her absence is brief, she returns a different person, and the event causes fissures to develop that threaten to unravel her traditional Punjabi Sikh family.ĀOver the next two decades, as Singaporeās political, social and cultural landscapes change, the familyās attempts to cope with the shifts lead to some disastrous consequences. How do we confront our legacies, and, when necessary, how do we accept change?Ā InheritanceĀ is a universal story of family, identity and belonging.
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āInheritance is a moving and assured debut, a perfectly balanced allegory, where the individual struggles of a family are underscored by the larger picture of nationbuilding and national identity. Balli Kaur Jaswal writes with compassion, intelligence and an empathetic eye, transporting the reader effortlessly through time and between points of view.ā
āLeanne Hall, author of This Is Shyness
āJaswalās wonderful debut didnāt merely transport me to a country I knew nothing about, or introduce me to a family the likes of which Iād never meet. She made me long for her Singapore like a lost home, and miss her characters like departed friends. What an extraordinary thing for a novel to do.ā
āAlexander Yates, author of Moondogs
āA vivid, compelling tale of selfhood, fraught blood ties and the devastating weight of change.ā
āMeg Mundell, author of Black Glass -
Balli Kaur Jaswal is the recipient of The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist Award 2014 for Inheritance, which inspired a film adaptation directed by K. Rajagopal, called Lizard on the Wall. Her second novel, Sugarbread, was shortlisted for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize and the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize, while her most recent book, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick in 2018. Born in Singapore and raised in Japan, Russia and the Philippines, she studied creative writing in the United States, and has received writing fellowships from the University of East Anglia and Nanyang Technological University. Her fourth novel, The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters, will be published in the USA and UK in 2019.
