Rana Abhyendra Singh "Book Review Tomb of Sand – Painting the trivial from a palette of extraordinary colors"

The plot of “Tomb of Sand” is intricately intertwined, touching on Buddhism, women’s rights, ancient history, mythology, modern urban life, and many other topics. The protagonist is an elderly person. It honors the illustrious Subcontinental writing tradition fueled by the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. A novel exploring language, structure, and building is also a work of art, an engaging read filled with cliffhangers and surprising turns. In this book, the story writing takes on a different hue. Its plot, organization, plausibility, and representation are exceptional in their unique ways, beyond our discernible boundaries and limits. Even the familiar is completely novel in this situation. Its reality does away with the division between the two; both are recognized and charmed. In its course, time also reaches here. Each person has a history and each second slumbers for eons. For instance, the “voices returned from the historical backdrop of the massacre” are echoed in the violent Hindustani and Pakistani nationalist displays that occur every night on the Wagah border. The long shadows of time remain tied to each day of the joint family. The narrative is divided into three sections, each of which focuses on a different stage of the main character’s life